Just keep in mind that when it fails completely you will need to be towed
and the repairs will be much more expensive if the box can even be rebuilt
after the busted pieces make a mess of things.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
John Jensen
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 6:57 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Tranny Whinning in 84 Westy?

Not to butt in to this conversation, but....I also have a whining manual
tranny on my '80 Camper.  It started a few hundred miles ago (I think)
and is most pronounced in first and second.  It still whines in third,
but a bit less and not noticeably in fourth.  So I gather from the
conversation that this is likely a bad input shaft (main) bearing.  I
also gather (hopefully) I can expect to get a few more thousands of
miles before it fails completely.  Is this a reasonable guess?  I have a
couple of spares trannies, but no "spare" cash at the moment for a
rebuild.  I'd like to put the repair off a couple of months.

John Jensen
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