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On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:56, Jim Adney wrote: > On 6 Nov 2003 at 13:25, Marc Weber wrote: > > > My tranny is leaking and needs to be opened and resealed; involves > > dropping engine and tranny and reinstalling. I got two quite > > different quotes from mechanics on how many hours they would charge > > for the dropping/installation portion of the job-- 3-4 hours and 7 > > hours plus. Anybody have ideas of what is standard (both factory and > > reality)? > > WHERE is it leaking? This is rather unusual. Have you tried just tightening up > the bolts to their proper torque? > > If it really has to come apart these times sound pretty good. Russ would have a > better handle on this. > > If I remember right, you have a '68 which is swing axle. The right time should be about 5 hours to R&R the trans. This doesn't include any time for fixing anything. Are you sure it is not just axle boots or something that needs replaced. It is rare to have to pull the trans to just fix a leak. -- 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