Why ship it all over the place when one of the best guys is right down the
Freeway.
       Try mike with Rancho Transaxle.  He has a backlog, but knows his
stuff. He’s done 2 Syncro boxes for me and about 10 for other local owners.

                               Stacy

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:04 PM Alex MeVay <alex@mevay.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> 1982 Vanagon, early 091 4sp manual.  Over the past few k miles, I've
> been hearing more and more gear noise (buzz/whine) from the
> transmission. 1st and 2nd are "pretty darn" loud, 3rd audible.  No
> audible noise from 4th, but I believe 4th gear was replaced a few
> years ago.  In neutral, there is a slight "grumbling" (bad bearing?)
> sound that fades away if I push the clutch in and (presumably) the
> input shaft spins down.  Van drives and shifts great.
>
> I pulled the magnetic drain plug recently to have a look and found a
> nice little christmas tree:
>
> https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/2252060.jpg
>
> The deposits seemed to be thin metal flecks of up to about a mm:
>
> https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/2252059.jpg
>
> Fluid level was just below the filler hole, seemed OK.
>
> I had changed the fluid and cleaned off the magnetic plug 18 months
> and 8,400 miles ago (filled up with Mobil 1 full synthetic 75W90 LS)
> when I upgraded to the 930 CV's, so all accumulation was from that
> recent period.
>
> Soooooo.....thoughts/advice?
>
> Separately, I am in the market for a new shop for this work.  I recall
> there were some recs in a thread last year, but I haven't been able to
> dig it up.  Interested in any recs within 1000 miles of San Diego,
> whether that's for the complete project, or just to pull the
> transmission and send it off to AA or German Transaxle, or whomever
> the favorites are these days.
>
> Thanks as always,
>
> Alex
>
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