[Vwdiesel] Caddy keeps popping out of 5th gear

[Roger Brown]

LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
> 
>   I'll put a third on low lube.  That's about the symptom if it's loosely
> filled
> to the check plug level which is roughly a half quart too low.  5th gear is
> the only one that starves out when the tranny's a bit low.  Drain it and fill
> 
> through one of the various methods with 2 quarts of synthetic GL-4.
>   Check how the fore/aft movement of the shifter is relative to hitting a
> stop one way or the other and sitting centered in neutral.  Could be the
> adjustment as Roger says but most often it's from THINKING it's properly
> filled, not knowing that the check plug is wrong on the earlier trannys.

I also do have a note about the gear oil level on the web page I posted a link to earlier.  There is also a good description of
the problem on the VW Vortex Manual Transmission Forum FAQ:
	http://forums.vwvortex.com/zeroforum?id=147

--
   Roger