Now SMS was 4k tranny?

[fahrvergnugen at cox.net (David Utley)]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C Boyko" <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
To: "Blake Irvin" <blake@clockserver.homeip.net>
Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>; <fahrvergnugen@cox.net>
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 5:23 AM
Subject: Now SMS was 4k tranny?


> I'm not sure exactly how common the problem really is, but it IS a pretty
> scary problem. I've never had any SMS on my fleet of junk, and they'd all
> be 020s (except the daily) and all have been pretty abused. The 16Vs the
> only one with the bolt kit, and only because it got rebuilt for upgrades.
>
> So now a quickie stats type question, how many of you have had SMS and
what
> condition was the tranny in (mileage,etc)/how many other healthy ones do
> you have? I mean if someone has experience with 20 trannies and the only
> one they had the problem with was a 500,000 mile example that went dry a
> few times, then that's different from every second person on the list
> having one go. OTOH, if I ever have one torn down again, bolts will go in.
> I'd like to hear from Ron/Dan etc on this, given their experience with
this
> stuff.
> cathy
>

I've had two go, one had 245K, the other about 130K...  One was a 2H, the
other was a 4K...


David