My belief is that the automatic transmission market was responsible for only
a very small percentage of their overall sales. This was clear when they
were for sale, as the automatic kits had additional costs due to parts that
had to be made automatic specific in much smaller batches. As such, I think
based entirely upon their growing business with the manual 2wd and syncro
crowd and small percentage in the Automatic crowd, of which they've had
issues with, It seems like a reasonable action.
I imagine the automatic transmission kits might come back into existence at
some point, but it sure is a bummer if you just purchased an engine.
Luckily, the resale value on said engine should be pretty good.

-Craig
'85GL turned WESTY
BOSTIG in the back

 Bostig Kits for ATs

>
> Very disappointed to hear that as I have been figuring that I'd go that
> route when the time comes on my '90 Westy w/AT.  And from the write up of
> the problem it seems that the decision is based on one problem, repeated,
> on
> one vehicle and the work done by one shop on one transaxle and one engine.
> If they have not seen the same problem occurring with other installs then
> Bostig should be lauded for their overly cautious action on this but it
> still appears to be an isolated problem, isolated to that one vehicle and
> shop.
>