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dhaavers
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MarkWard
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 Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 10:04 am Post subject: Re: 86 Vanagon stuck in 3rd |
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How lucky am I? Decided to reseal my syncro transaxle and found a cracked low gear housing, so figured now was the time to check my 3/4 slider. It shifted fine prior to being removed. It just leaked a lot. I just pressed the shafts out of the gear carrier and was laying them on the bench next to the press and the 3/4 slider fell apart. I uploaded these two pictures of the broken slider. It broke exactly where the predicted failure occurs.
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riceye
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 1:48 pm Post subject: Re: 86 Vanagon stuck in 3rd |
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Good day to buy that Mega Millions ticket, Mark!
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levi
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: 86 Vanagon stuck in 3rd |
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Wow!
Great catch!
Looks like it started from the inside corners on 2 of the notches, geesh.
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DanHoug
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 4:44 am Post subject: Re: 86 Vanagon stuck in 3rd |
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wow, Mark!!! nice catch. incredible timing.
how many miles on this trans and was the slider OEM?
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MarkWard
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 5:52 am Post subject: Re: 86 Vanagon stuck in 3rd |
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It has the original square cutouts and the main shaft bearing cover, so I assume original. I'm not near the cluster, but I remember it being over 200k miles.
edit: correction 180,000 miles on the speedo head. I just checked.
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JealousJack
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2020 1:06 am Post subject: Re: 86 Vanagon stuck in 3rd |
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I never did update this. I did end up replacing my transmission from one I found in California. I suppose that somebody could have guessed that based on my topics further on, but I figured for anyone searching threads, yes! It was absolutely the transmission. Second time taking it out and putting it back in and I must say that I couldn’t do it without the Samba.
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