RE: tranny is toast

[Jared Erlandson <jerlandson@wac.net>]

Don't have it rebuilt...ouch!  Too expensive.  Sounds like you have the
90mm drive shafts which means not the close ratio tranny (9A)  You
should be able to but a used one with between 80-120k miles on it for
between 375-450.  Throw in 35 bucks for a seal kit and your set.  I paid
another 275 bucks to have a good mechanic rip out my old and replace it.


A rebuilt will cost you upwards of 900, and to rebuild yours, more than
that.  Don't do it unless you are thinking about throwing a 6th gear in
! :)

Anyway just my 2c worth


jared

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	scirocco.gtx@juno.com [SMTP:scirocco.gtx@juno.com]
> Sent:	Monday, August 31, 1998 6:25 PM
> To:	scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject:	tranny is toast
> 
> I'm sorry to be the bearer of good news but the symptoms you describe
> don't match up to the bad tranny theory.
> 
> Before you go betting the bank, have a pro (if there is such a thing!)
> look at yout linkage. I have had this sort of problem several times in
> the past twenty years and every time it was the linkage.
> 
> Mark . . .
> Scirocco 1982, Golf GT 1987
> Previous Sciroccos: 1981S (RIP), 1980S, 1975TS, 1975
> *BIRTH*SCHOOL*WORK*DEATH*
> --------- Begin forwarded message ----------
> From: "Daniel A. Nowlan" <nowlan@flash.net>
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: tranny is toast
> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:46:44 -0500
> Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980831194643.00751018@pop.flash.net>
> 
> Welp, here's the skinny.  If I put my car in reverse, I then have all
> five
> forward gears in order one time.  After that, if I start trying to
> down
> shift, I can usually? only find 3rd (or 4th) through 5th.  I had a
> buddy
> jump in the car and move the shifter all around.  Linkage looks fine. 
> Ball
> and sockets are intact.  Best I can come up with is that's it's
> something
> internal to the tranny that's fucked up.  Does that sound reasonable? 
> What
> should a used one at a junk yard cost me?  Should I have to have it
> rebuilt?  Thanks.
> 
> Woefully yours,
> Dan
> '86 8v red martian
> 
>   mailto:nowlan@flash.net
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