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On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 11:47, Russ wolfe wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 11:13, Daniel Baum wrote: > > > > > It smells as if ATF has been leaking into it. Is this possible? And if so, > > how do you fix it? I bet it's a big job. > > > > Should I give up driving the car, even short distances, until I get this > > fixed? I really don't want a blown final drive. That would probably put the > > car on the scrap heap. > > > I wouldn't drive the car until ypu figure out the problem. > There are 2 places that ATF can get into the differential. The first is > shown in the Bentley page 28 Fig 11-1 of the automatic section. It is > Item 1 (pinion seal). This seal is not under pressure, it is just splash oil. The other is a small seal on the govenor shaft, > that Bentley doesn't show anyplace that I can find. Page 15, Fig 7-1 is > a picture of the govenor. It runs on the shaft where it steps from the > small diameter to the bigger diameter. This seal is a pressure seal. > Either of these seal is not too hard to replace if you have the > differential out of the car. > > -- > Russ Wolfe > '66 FB MT > '71 FB AT > '65 Bug (not running) > russw@classicvw.org > http://www.classicvw.org > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org