[Vwdiesel] Transmission trashing

[Dana Morphew]

On the Vanagon trannies, the 3/4 slider hub often develops a crack at its corners.  
Sometime in '90 VW began radiusing these corners to lessen the problem.  Search the 
Vanagon Archives using key words "slider"  and "hub" to get lots more info.

Dana

On 28 Jul 2005 at 19:33, rod welch wrote:

> Hi All...   Somewhere on the internet I have seen an article about a
> transmission component that caused problems and was changed in later
> vans...'86/'87?? or something
> 
> .
> 
> I cannot find the article... don't know what the part was called.... and
> can't remember what problems it caused.... (great...)
> 
> I know it was something about a weakness due to "sharp" corners and the
> later part had rounded corners...
> 
> Or did I just dream all this??  Does anyone know??
> 
> 
> 
> Anyway to cut a long story short... I've lost R/G/1 and 4, managed to get 2
> and neutral with a struggle (when I let the clutch out it makes horrible
> grinding noises) and had to drive 350km in 3. I'm going to pull the whole
> lot out and re-con the engine at the same time so any advice on where to
> start with the tranny would be appreciated...
> 
> 
> 
> Thanx...   1987 syncro 1.6TD 
> 
> 
> 
> rod of finland