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<x-charset iso-8859-1> Jacob wrote, Its the skinny one with the hole in the middle. ****************************************************************** Oh no !!! the skinny gland nut ! Flashbacking to the Disney land parking lot for the first incident and flashbacking to a picnic in the mountains for the next one... Both bad flashbacks were caused by the skinny glandnut from an AUTOSTICK tranny, they are very different, different converter mating. I went to two different VW stores that said that they were absolutely sure that the glandnut was the right one. Several trips to the junkyard for examples proved them wrong. This wrong part caused my two torque converters to crack and three flexplates plates to break. The right one looks exactly like a standard stock glandnut without the center bearing. The center hole must allow the Coverter Nub to fit snug inside but not too tight . The Autostick glandnut center hole is way big and and will make the converter to sometimes flop around and cause the engine to seem unbalanced. What I mean by standard Glandunt , is the one used for the stickshift. Sometimes thickess varies on standard glandnuts, if they are too thick it will also be bad. You MUST rehearse the install of the coverter to your flexplate with your engine out. Make sure the converter feels snug in the glandnut and can be turned manually in it (you must hold it) like as if it were a wheel and axil . bolt the torque converter to the flexplate on the engine with the engine out, make shure everything fits perfectly with no reservations or comprimise. Snug straight on fit is what should be strived for. I had to buy the thinest stock glandnut displayed at the local shop, The thinest standard glandnut is not thin but it is not those super chunky heayduty performance stickshift glandnut. The right glandnut has a smaller hole and is 2 times (more or less) as the autostick glandnut. The stickshift Glandnut I bought had the center bearing. I removed the bearing since no one had any idea on where to get the right one, they always offered me the wrong one. Anyon have a source for glandnuts without the center bearing so removal is not necessary ? No catalog lists these. Shifting tranny hesitation may not be caused by this problem, must check the valve body by cleaning and if this does not fix it then deep work must be done to the tranny but I am not sure what, maybe the pump ? My trnny had your problem but I coorected all of it's maladies by valve body teardown and cleaning, one of my sticking valves had a dirt spec on it and it might as well have been a boulder for it since these parts are very tight fit. LEON MARTINEZ SAN DIEGO AND TIJAUNA ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>