Jim, I'm not alone when I say thank you for all the in depth research,
development, and problem solving you guys do for the Vanagon community.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Jim Akiba <syncrolist@bostig.com> wrote:

>  The more we find out the more we're seeing that there is a rather
> substantial problem of late with poorly rebuilt torque converters in
> vanagonland(and one of the very first symptoms to pop up is a leaking
> TC seal). The upshot of having publicized it was a lot of people we
> never would have heard from otherwise came forward from all over the
> country and contacted us(which we really appreciate and encourage)
> with identical failures and stories but different engines. We've now
> collected information on failed converters from several of the same
> vendors, across engines(wbx, tiico, gowesty).  I'm still compiling the
> info, and I still have to talk to a couple more vendors that
> buy/install rebuilt transmissions/converters, but I've already spoken
> with enough trusted and well known folks to have a pretty good handle
> on it. I think we've ID'd two high failure rate converter companies to
> stay away from, but I'm not ready to release what I've found until I'm
> really certain and convinced it makes sense to do so, since it will
> materially affect the business of these places.  In the meantime
> though Scott, I'd appreciate, and I'm sure the other guys here at
> Bostig would appreciate a bit more accuracy and care in your
> statements to the list about the nature of problems you are
> representing for us.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Akiba
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
> <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> > be glad you don't have a Zetec in there.
> > they are running into 'unfixable' oil leak issues with auto trans and
> Ford
> > Zetec engine recently.
>