He's talking about the input shaft to the transmission as I understand him,
not the output, which is as you say.

Stuart

From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans [mailto:scottdaniel@turbovans.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 7:50 PM
To: Stuart MacMillan
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Transmission input shaft play?

'ball bearing channels' ?

I thought it was well understood that the junction spot ..where a stud keeps
the two shafts locked together ..with a splind sleeve over it, allows sfor
up/down, left/right wiggling.

On 11/8/2012 5:28 PM, Stuart MacMillan wrote:

Normal radial play, there should be no axial play.  That's the clearance in
the ball bearing channels, and why you need a pilot bearing to support the
other end of the shaft.

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Tabe Johnson
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 11:13 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Transmission input shaft play?

Yes, I meant radial play, not axial.

tabe

--- On Tue, 11/6/12, neil n  <mailto:musomuso@gmail.com>
<musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:

From: neil n  <mailto:musomuso@gmail.com> <musomuso@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Transmission input shaft play?
To: greentabe-vanagon@yahoo.com
Cc: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
Received: Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 10:40 PM If you're talking about
side to side play, that's normal.

The input shaft is held onto another shaft (can't recall part name)
with a small stud. There is a gear/sleeve that slides over both, but
my guess is that even with that gear, there's still enough play to
allow side to side movement.

Some images of what I mean (this is an air cooled, but same
idea):

https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/InputShaftRRDKAirCooledTransmiss
ion#

Neil.

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Tabe Johnson
 <mailto:greentabe-vanagon@yahoo.com> <greentabe-vanagon@yahoo.com>
wrote:

I was looking at a (used) manual transmission today and

it had maybe 1/8" to 1/4" of play at the end of the input shaft.  How
much is normal/acceptable?

tabe johnson/90MV

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