If UPS smacked all that metal hard enough to break it, let them deal with the
problem. You may have more damage than you realize, and a damaged tranny in any
respect is simply not acceptable.

IMHO.

John Rodgers
"88 GL Driver wannabeverysoon

LAWS HOME wrote:

> I've just recently put new radial snow tires on both my Jetta and one of my
> diesel rabbits. The "bad" thing is that the rear tires on both vehicles are
> less than sufficient for what I use the cars for. the reason they only got
> tires on the front was because there aren't any available 13inch snow tires
> around here. I purchased them at 2 different places and neither set was the
> size I wanted ( the correct size) . I now have 170/70R 13's on the rabbit
> and 185/70 R 13's on the Jetta, on the front and BOTH cars have 155/80R13's
> on the rear.( until someone gets resupplied ) The ONLY trouble I'm having
> comes NOT from the tire being oversized or mismatched , but the hind end
> wants to pass me from time to time. This is really not a big problem, just
> point the front in the direction I Want to go and punch the throttle and
> everything comes back into perspective!  VANAGON CONTENT..........I
> purchased a tranny from Ken at Van-again, excellent service BTW , he put it
> on the truck on the 22nd and it got to Michigan on Christmas eve. ! However
> UPS had mishandled the package and it was broken upon arrival. Does anyone
> know if a guy could remove the "nose piece" of the tranny and replace it
> with another one , or is it an integral part of the transmission? I was
> thinking/hoping that it was just a place to bolt on the front mount, and a
> cover. ???????? Tom