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On 11 May 2004 at 19:50, Russ Wolfe wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 11:45, Jim Adney wrote: > > The reverse gear itself is made of brass, and it gets shaved off a bit every > > time it grinds. eventually there's not enough left of the gear to hold and it > > pops out of gear. > No, the reverse gear is not brass, but the early shift forks were. The > gear is harded steel. In the early trans, the shift fork would wear. On > the later trans's, the gear would wear. Not sure where the exact split > is, but they changed the shift fork and the gear, but they still got > abused. Okay, I just remembered it wrong then. I probably have some good used parts downstairs, but, as Russ says, it's a big job to install them. I cut up an old tranny case to make a jig for this job, but I've only used it once. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org