I have been driving the westy for a few days and the rebuild appears successful.� Its so much fun to drive I can't keep myself off the road.� It should be good, it cost me almost as much as the car to get it rebuilt properly.� And with the tranny ground shiny clean the starter turns over great!� Many thanks to all who gave me great advice on this!
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The major chain rebuilder I sent it to didn't know their (VW) first gear from a shift boot but luckily they sent it to a guy who did.� Everything smooth and tight now.� Thanks again for all that good advice both here and on the phone, I'm going to save some of these email responses in my own archive for later review.� You guys are awesome.
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To boot, for those who's tranny might break down in the central Texas area I may have a good small repair shop to refer to.
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I'll start asking questions about my next repair issue in a future email.

--- On Mon, 3/16/09, AD Felder <dieseldoofus@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
From: AD Felder <dieseldoofus@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: transmission rebuild
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 9:50 PM

ok, at the risk of starting a fistfight, I am having my 4-speed 091 transaxle rebuilt.� Any opinions on lubricant for this?� I am not big on synthetics because they are not "backward compatible".
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This transaxle would not go into or stay in first gear.� second gear holds great but getting there is sometimes a little "iffy"..........