Rolling freely goes back to bad piston or other internal leak.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Edward Maglott
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 6:40 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: semi-urgent auto transmission question, update

Yes it will roll freely in D even when it is cold and not
engaging.  I haven't tried it without putting it in R first.
Edward

At 10:58 PM 9/12/2010, Dennis Haynes wrote:
>I'm thinking crack or tear in the forward clutch piston. Even new they can
>fail. Will it work if you do not use reverse first? Could be the reverse
>piston was replaced with an incorrect one, no bleed valve. This can make
>reverse say engaged  after it is de-selected. Simple test, can the van roll
>while you attempt to use "drive"?
>
>Dennis
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
>Edward Maglott
>Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 10:45 AM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: semi-urgent auto transmission question, update
>
>Testing this morning after overnight about 60 degrees outside.  Start it up
>and it will immediately engage reverse but nothing happens when shifting
>into D, 2 or 1.  Let it idle in P and tried D every 30 seconds.  At 2 and a
>half minutes it engaged D, and immediately drove fine.  It does seem like a
>valve or something is sticking when cold and once it starts moving it works
>properly.
>
>Edward