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Ahhh... good point! It looked good, I ran some parts washer fluid through it and lubed it up good with wheel bearing grease, it *should* be OK. Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo" 65 Squareback "Eggcrate" 87 golf "Winterat" 93 RX7 "Redstur" -----Original Message----- From: Russ Wolfe [mailto:russw@classicvw.org] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 3:11 PM To: Type3 Subject: RE: [T3] Q about my new Tranny On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 20:47, Keith Park wrote: > Actually, its an old tranny but with 87Kmi instead of 298K that the cars > original had. It has been sitting about 20 years though. I did change the > oil. > > It just acts like the main shaft takes longer to spin down after pushing the > clutch in... if you push the clutch in and shove it right into first it > grinds in, same with reverse... but if you count to two or so its fine. The > clutch doesn't start to engage for a full inch off the floor so I know its > getting disengaged completely but.... the Notch's 73 Tranny doesn't do > this, and neather did the 71 original, So Im wondering a bit, is this a weak > first gear synchro? Otherwise the tranny is nice and quiet and works great/ > How is the pilot bearing in the gland nut. If it is dry, you will get those same symptoms. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) '05 KIA Sorento SUV russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~