getting more confusing than ever.
'ball bearing channels'..
been working on cars going on 50 years and vanagons 20+ and never heard
that one.

the input shaft is the one that connects the clutch disc to the
transmission..
and it's in two parts on a vanagon.

anything 'output' would be what 'comes out of the transaxle'..in other
words ..the output flangeswhere the axles are.

what happened to the orignal poster anyway?

S.
On 11/8/2012 8:52 PM, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
> He's talking about the input shaft to the transmission as I understand him,
> not the output, which is as you say.
>
>
>
> Stuart
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>
>
> 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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>
> --
> Neil n
>
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