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Has anyone ever rebuilded a stearing box from a T3 or a bug i was wondering if this can still be possible. >From Chris Swafford 537Buckeye 36LSB S.W. Corner of Cinti,Oh In the Hills 71'Beautiful stock Squareback half in primer 68'Vw Dead Beetle Needing rear tortion bar. 83'GTI Gone!!! NEVER BUY A 82-84 RABBIT On Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:37:05 -0800 (PST) Steven Ayres <comwest@well.com> writes: > >Boyd Drew (from a private message)=> >=> Im now building my first type 3, but in all the early bugs i have >had, >=> and even my 71 and 72 super beetles, I have always seen heavy >(gear) oil >=> in the steering box. I think that someone at some point probably >=> thought that grease would be better, but why question VW? If they >=> used oil, ill stick to oil.. >=> >=> my 2 cents > >Interesting! To follow up, did those steering boxes have plastic >freeze >plugs or screw plugs? And which type box is on your current T3? > >The (Aussie) Scientific Publications T3 manual (which Kevin is >graciously supplying copies of) advises gear oil though '63 and grease > >starting in '64. John Muir says that '65 and earlier boxes (all types) > >take gear oil, and nothing about later ones. Anybody else? Could >someone >check a Bentley manual for me? > >Steven Ayres, Prescott AZ > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]