Thanks, everyone (Andrew, Peter, & Scott). That's good enough for me.
My local guy usually gets their trannies rebuilt by German Transaxle.
He gets TQ's locally from B&B transmissions. A week and half with no
converter on hand is not worth a few bucks saved. I'll try to get one
from German Transaxle.

BenT

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On May 27, 2010, at 5:59 PM, "Andrew Martin" <ramblinvan@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I recently bought a rebuilt one from Ken at German Transaxle of
> America in
> Bend OR, and it's purple!  (More of a lavender really)  I haven't
> installed
> it yet so I can't give a review.
>
> Andrew
> Bainbridge Island WA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> Behalf Of
> BenT Syncro
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 5:45 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Looking for a Torque Converter
>
> Hello Folks,
>
> I haven't had much luck finding a torque converter from our better
> known listvendors. My local vendor has been taking forever to get me
> one. Though I realize a simple Google search will yield a few vendors.
> I'm hoping to get names of vendors listmembers had good experience
> with.
>
> West coast preferred for quicker delivery. In a pinch, I'll order from
> anywhere.
>
>
> TIA,
>
> BenT
> Sent from my missing TQ
>