The Early Rabbit Diesel automatic had a feature known as E-Mode. Between
Drive and Neutral was this setting. Lift your foot off the throttle and the
tranny would disengage so you could coast. Also made idling easy as the
tranny would stay in neutral until you applied throttle. I'll bet that if we
installed that valve body and shift detent in the Vanagon automatic it would
work.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: David Beierl [mailto:dbeierl@gmail.com] On Behalf Of David Beierl
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 5:19 AM
To: Dennis Haynes
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Auto trans operating test help?

At 02:10 AM 11/11/2012, Dennis Haynes wrote:
>This should make for an interesting discussion. The transmission does
>not have any coast/release/glide capability in its design. If there is
>any overrun potential at all it is in the torque converter.  Once the
>converter goes above the stall or slip speed it should be almost locked
>up and the engine should not slow down much when throttle is removed.
>If it does that is a sign the converter is bad or it is not getting filled
with oil.

Ok, so it's only that I'm losing my mind...I already knew that so it's no
big deal.  Big relief.  Thanks, Dennis.

Yours,
David