Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:57:23 -0800
Reply-To: Sam Scholten <vwvanagon@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Sam Scholten <vwvanagon@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: automatic trans
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Hi all,
My '84 with an auto clocking in at 133K is also as fast as a stick.
However, my automatic GEO with 135K is behaving EXACTLY like your
Westy. On top of this, is smells like burnt tranny fluid when I'm
punching it- which is often, considering the 933cc beast's lack of
power (from the engine, not a slipping tranny.) You can't smell what
is downwind from what is behind you, so check the tranny fluid to see
if it is burnt.
I'm leery of changing the fluid, because I'm aware of many stories
involving trans failure after changing the fluid- the resin from the
old fluid is cleaned away, exposing the leaky seals that drain the
fluid and fry the bands. I'm not sure of this, so you may want to take
this with as many grains of salt as so desired.
At least the problem is universal, so an expert non-VW opinion will be
just as valid.
As good as $2K for a new trans may be, it is still $2K. My nails are
bitten just as short as yours due to my own problem.
Best of luck!
Sam
"Just as original as the original=just as many ideas appropriated from
VW as the first time"
---Bob Berkemer <berky@WIN.BRIGHT.NET> wrote:
>
> My 84 westy has an automatic that I've actually learned to like. The
> problem is that it may be getting tired. The tranny has 145,000
miles on
> it and in cold weather (northern wisconsin cold) the trans dosen't
want
> to engage when it is first started. What I mean is that when I first
put
> it into 1st or reverse I've got to run the rpm's up to at least 2500
to
> get any movement out of the beast. Once things are warmed up there
is no
> problem other than a westy with an automatic is the very definition of
> slow : ( Oh well, who would by a Vanagon to hotrod?
>
> So to you tranny experts....is it dying? Is there any hope?
>
> TIA, Bob
>
> 84 Westy, wolfsburg...Das Bus
>
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