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Subject:re: (1) Dry sumping and (2) oil heat and (3) MSDS
Date:Wed, 13 Dec 95 13:50:47 PST

Is this failure related to the 3rd/4th sychronizer problem that the 2wd 
4sp can develop? What actually breaks in the syncro transmission?

Steve

"Tom Forhan" <TFORHAN@hr.house.gov> Wrote:

|      We talked transmissions a while. He maintains that syncro
|      transmissions have an design flaw that causes failure 
| between 80K
|      and 140K miles. He described it as a bearing problem,