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On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 19:51, Mark Fuhriman wrote: > > I looked at the coupling under the car in front of the tranny. Looked OK, > including the set screw. I'm confused here, though.. Photos in Bentley > (Fig. 5-1, p.18) and Haynes (2.5b, P.95 and Fig. 6.4, p.97) show just one > set screw. But the 1966 Elfrink manual (p.107) shows two set screws. Was > there a difference early/late? Maybe I just needed to look farther ahead in > the tunnel to find the forward screw? Anyway, everything looked tight. No > locking wire, though. Looks like somebody replaced the square-head screw > with a hole for the wire with a hex-head screw with no hole. The screw tip > was the right shape to pass into the dimple in the selector rod. Guess I > should have put it back with loctite. > I just check the 2 photos you reference. The Bentley is showing the late style coupler, which yours would have. The Elfrink is early coupler which would be right for a pre '65 I think. > I decided to change the gear oil in the tranny. I'd never done it to this > car since I've had it (3+ years). I'm embarrassed to admit that it was > about a quart low, and the magnet was full of crud. Put fresh oil in and > went for a drive. Three days now, and 100 miles later, no problem with 2nd > gear anymore. Low/old gear oil must have made 2nd gear sluggish in there? > Seems better now, in any case. > Glad to hear that new oil fixed the problem. -- 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