Don't bother pulling the pan from the tranny. It sounds like a CV-Joint
had broken, or the bolts that secure the CV joint to the drive flange
fell/stripped out.

Jed Thompson wrote:
>
> Ok I was drving along today in my 80 westy automatic when I start hearing
> this clunking sound that is dependant of speed... about 2 miles later there
> is a huge bad sound and I am forced to coast into a parking lot.  I got
> under the van and the left drive shaft is very misaligned and now moves all
> over the place in every direcion. When I start the motor and put it in gear
> i get a loud crashing/clanging/banging/expensive sound. I'm going to pull
> the pan off the bottom of the final drive tomorrow to see what I can see but
> I don't really know what I'm doing or what it could be. Im hoping its just
> the CV joint or something else easy and cheap.  It just seems odd that i get
> clanging whenthe van is in gear but I'm not moving.

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TomC
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85 Vanagon Crew Cab
82 Vanagon Westy diesel=>gas conversion
65 Notchback