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Subject:re:(3) MSDS
Date:Wed, 13 Dec 1995 21:23:36 -0400

Sounds too good to be true, that new (redesigned) syncronizer you mentioned
certainly constitutes a design flaw fix. 80-140K? gulp! I'm due.

Looks like trouble ahead, driving that bus,
coz you know your tranny just bit the dust!

apologies to the dead

Tim Smith

At 04:00 PM 12/13/95 -0600, steven.huss@bangate1.tek.com wrote:
>Is this failure related to the 3rd/4th sychronizer problem that the 2wd 
>4sp can develop? What actually breaks in the syncro transmission?
>
>"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, 
                                             ^^^^^^^^

Trying to through us off track?

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