transmissioin - rebuild or replace?

[dswalterwi at gmail.com (Don Walter)]

Mine whined loudly in 2nd gear when the fluid was low. It then started
poping out of 5th gear.

On 10/30/05, C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>
> On 10:53:15 pm 10/29/05 Blake Irvin <blake@clockserver.homeip.net> wrote:
> > oh, yeah, i'm poor right now and don't have my own garage...
> >
> > On Oct 29, 2005, at 10:48 , Blake Irvin wrote:
> >
> > > i've been having some gear whine in 2nd-5th under load - figure i
> > > should either replace or rebuild transmission (it's old and from a
> > > jetta)
> > >
> > > i can find reman's so far for 800, new from germanautoparts for
> > > 1200
> > > should i rebuild (no experience with this, but i'm good and weird
> > > mechanical stuff) or replace?
> > >
> > > stock performance is fine for my current needs.
> > >
> > > blake/
> > >
> >
>
> If you're that poor, maybe someone on the list has a known good used one.
> If you have someone install it, you'll be out about 5 hours of labour too,
> so budget for that. Is it possible that something else is making it whine?
> (bad tires, bearing, etc...)
>
> Another question for the list...what happens if your gear oil is low? I
> know it'll pop out of fifth, but is this another possibility for the
> whining? (IIRC, your tranny was off not that long ago for a clutch, am I
> right? Could be they lost some gear oil)
>
> Just wondering...
>
> cathy
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Scirocco-l mailing list
> Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l
>



--
Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
1984 8V Audi 4000s (lastest addition)
1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939)
1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (Ben's Car)
1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04)
1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Beetle (sold)