My '87 SyncroWesty has over 250,000 miles on the original box.  It is starting
to announce that it is time to start collecting info as it is developing a
bearing whine. Nothing broke, shifts fine, just getting noisy.
Mark Rokus

Daniel Bey wrote:

> In a message dated 11/27/98 3:19:24 AM, you wrote:
>
> <<My fourth gear required replacing at about 160k Km.
>
> Jimmy Sanby
> Cape Town SA
> '89 Syncro 15"
> >>> Andreas <anjar@ONLINE.NO> 11/26 3:49 PM >>>
> Hi all, I read with some concern that when my gearbox gets to about 140k
> it WILL blow. My 87 Syncro has 188k km on its original transmission, Id
> be interested to hear from anyone who has got significantly more mileage
> out of their gearboxes, then maybe I can sleep again at night!  Dave
> Perry  1987 Syncro bus>>
>
> Hi Dave,
> I have over 170.000 miles on my gear box.
> Runs strong so far, just have some shifting problems getting into 1st gear
> (posted a few days ago). This is news to me about gear boxes blowing??? Am I
> missing something???
> Dan
> 87 Syncro GL Westy
> 71 Bug Conv