Kind of off-topic, but just to share a nice ghastly aparently-tranny horror
story: I was coming home about a month ago and the van popped out of gear
and wouldn't go back in. It wasn't until the tow truck arrived and lifted
it up that I saw the left drive shaft lying in the road.
The reason:  I let the local goober mechanic reseal my leaky 85 Westy
tranny...It seems to hold oil, but somehow he forgot to actually tighten
the bolts that hold driveshafts to tranny...must've gone off for a cig or 
not located the allen wrench.
Now it's out there in the snow somewhere, until I dig a trench and crawl
under it to run those bolts back in, assuming no damage has been done to
the drive shaft/tranny interface. 
Sigh. 

David Griffin