Ken,

You don't mention fourth gear.  If you cannot get 2nd or fourth, the rear
linkage bushing carrier bracket could be mounted on the wrong side of the
transmission flange.  I'm sure you've seen this before and I hope I'm not
talking down to you, but it's easy to overlook the obvious.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Ken Wilford
|Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:27 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Automatic transmission advice needed
|
|I just bought a 90 GL Vanagon that has a strange transmission problem
|(at least I haven't run into it before).  It is like 2nd gear doesn't
|exist.  It will go in first no problem but then it just winds up until
|it shifts into 3rd and then it will go down the road fine that way.  If
|you try to put it in 2nd gear with the shifter it will allow you to do
|this but it won't engage 2nd instead you can just rev it up and nothing
|happens (just revs).  I have a good used transmission I can put in place
|of this one but if there is a way to make this one happy again I would
|like to know about it.  I was thinking about trying to adjust the 2nd
|gear brake band to see if this would help.  Anyone that has experienced
|this type of problem and has some advice, I would sure appreciate it.
|
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|Thanks,
|Ken Wilford
|John 3:16
|www.vanagain.com
|Phone: 856-327-4936
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