Can you built trans at home?

[Bruce]

[mcmscott]

Or send yours out to be bushed. People don't have a problem sending heads out for machine work, whats the difference?
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[mark tucker]

I have trust issues.....hard for me to send any thing out. there are somany scamers out there. thats when you do your home work to be sure your sending your stuff to the right guy. and for me the right guy would be in california accross the country,not down the street or accross town.I wish i had that 388 trans back in the bug.but I dont like bearing noise.and 1 dead bearing leads to more dead shit.so it sits in the storage room and the car has the 412 trans in it.trip to tenn probably wont happen with that 412 in there. does any body know the next winning lottery numbers???I play it about twice a year and need to play now.

[Bruce]

[Juanito84]

The VW transmission can cause bi-polar depression.

The story:

So you've finished getting your engine just the way you like it.
But then you notice you haven't done anything to rest of the car.
But then you stumble across transmission upgrades.
However, wanting to try it yourself, you search and search and search and can't find the parts.
But then, out of the blue you stumble across the Berg 5-speed kit!
But the you begine pricing all the parts.
So you decide to go with the freeway flier instead.
Ah, but you cannot seem to find an 3.88 R&P.
But then there it is, and for just a couple hundred dollars!
Ah! But how do you install one?
Alas! The Haynes manual has a detailed instruction list for the home mechanic on rebuilding your VW aircooled transmission!
But what's this? It say's not to change the R&P yourself!
Well you break out your Bentley's and see you need some tools to shim it properly.
But finally, you find the tools and you realize you're going to be in the thousands again.
So you decide this is a job for someone else. And you find someone else across the country who can do it for cheap!
But the you find out what it costs to ship your transmission there and back. :2gunfire:
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[jfats808]

[Juanito84]

What I want to know is if you can build a continuously variable transmission for a Type 1 at home.
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[mcmscott]

[gears]

[sbnova]

I was told "you cant build your own automatic transmission" years ago, when I was big into American muscle cars. At the time I rebuilt all my own engines and thought how much harder could it be?

I went to the local performance tranny builder, spoke to him for a while and he said he would order my parts at his cost. So it was game on.

I was building a 2004r, automatic overdrive, commonly found in Buick Grand Nationals and Monte Carlo SS's. I tore apart my junkyard pulled tranny and got to work reading everything I could find. I made all my own tooling despite the fact I was told it had to be bought, and that it was all required and very expensive.

Once I mocked up some of the sub assemblies I realized I needed some new "selective washers" (shims). Back to the tranny shop I went. The head builder there said "Oh, you checked those??", admitting that he NEVER checked clearances or end play on his builds- he just reuses the original shims every time. This is a performance tranny shop, known in my area for building the best performance and race trannies!!

I assembled my tranny, made quite a few modifications, added numerous performance parts (better pump, wider band, better clutches, machined plates, shift kit, billet servo, boost valve, etc) and probably saved at least $1000. It worked flawlessly.

The moral of my story is don't be afraid to try something. The only thing Ive ever paid to have built for me to date is a rear axle. It lasted 20 miles and destroyed everything inside including a rare positraction carrier. Now I wont pay for anything other than machine work- if only I had a mill.....
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http://www.cardomain.com/ride/448794 (Vette,Nova,Typhoon)

[Juanito84]

[Bruce]

[mark tucker]

mr nova I rebuilt american autos, mostly racing, but lots for std cars&trucks too. there wernt many specilaized tools for them,but there are make it easyer tools for them that make it oh somuch easyer to build them for the trans shop that does a lot or ships out.autos are nothing special,probably easyer than some std's, but they all have tricks to be done so they work better and last longer.it's amazing most auto trans could be rebuilt/repaird for less than $60 including fluid(not including labor, but they dont take a long time to do) and they charge???? we used to buy cores for $10-20. build them in down time and stick them on the shelf. 3 a day is easy if you dont break a sweat.
Ive got to get in gear and build or have a 388 trans to stick back in my bug soon as I noticed the poly mounts are almost gone when I did an oil change yesterday, and if Im pulling the motor it's getten a trans change too.
and no most trans shops dont set end play or even pay attn to the wear on the shims.they dont care as it will go at least a year when it's out of spec. I used to make some bronze shims for the mopar performance trans.some of the crap I got from big performance trans companys was horendious, blue printed race pumps that were wore out, rust pitted pump gears, mis matched housings.like I said there simple and work with all kinds of stuff not up to snuff....but a dead,sliced,cracked or hard seal can kill it all. even just funkey fluid.
when rebuilding a auto,a sharp memory is nice to have.....I may have an issue with that these days...

[mark tucker]

so who has the rebushed carriers for $30+$9 core?

[vwracerdave]

not $30 but check his ads http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=644356
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[mark tucker]

I mistakenly bought some shit from geno. best $100+ lesson I ever spent.pure shit, everything. he told me everything was returnable if I did not like it. he then refuzed the return when it got to him.

[mcmscott]

[Bruce]

[mark tucker]

then whoo has the wore out bearing bore housings?so I can steer clear of them,dont need no bull. I gotta find some shims&snapring/clips too at some point.

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