Just a question:  does this happen ALL the time or only when the engine is
cold?  It's my understanding that "sticky second gears in the morning" are
VERY common...

Other Syncrofolks experience this?

Tony
'91 Syncro Westy ('teepee')

>From: joe winter <fuyusan@HOTMAIL.COM>
>Reply-To: joe winter <fuyusan@HOTMAIL.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Syncro/Weekender questions
>Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 06:42:56 PST
>
>I am looking at an 87 Syncro.  Everything is OK when driving it but on
>downshift to 2nd, it is hard to engage the gear (like the shifter hangs
>up).
>  It will drop in a second or two later.  This is at normal speeds (or what
>I would consider normal on my 87 GL).  Everything is fine on the way up the
>gears.  Is this the beginning of the dreaded 2nd/3rd slider problem?  Along
>that line, what does it cost to have one of these boxes rebuilt?
>
>The Syncro is not a weekender, which my other 87 is.  Can the back seat be
>switched from one van to the other?
>
>Joe
>87 GL Weekender
>85 BMW K100RS
>
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