Re: [T3] Reverse problem - No archive

[Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

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.  


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