Alrighty Asad...the starter issue you had...I wonder if it wasn't just an
engine problem starting to surface. Once you have main bearing problems,
valve train problems, or lubrication problems, it's probably going to be
time for a tear-down, inspection, and maybe even a rebuild. Sorry it has
come to this, but I don't think you have any choice. Be glad you can handle
it yourself instead of paying a high-priced repair shop to do the work.
Your foundations (we call them 'mounts") will need replacing if they are
broke. Even one broken means you should replace all 3. With your problem
with reverse, does it not want to stay in gear? Is your transmission new or
rebuilt? Do you have to hold the lever in position so it doesn't pop out?
The problem can be a worn hockey stick and/or it can be that you need to
adjust your gearshifter a little bit. Here is an article I wrote about it
over 11 years ago! Can't believe it's been that long ago!
If you have trouble with sets of gears, try this chart:
Trouble With Adjust Shifter
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1st & 2nd right
3rd & 4th left
1st & 3rd back
2nd & 4th front
If it's just one gear, try this:
1st back
2nd forward
3rd back
4th forward
Reverse This could be the reverse plate
that is causing the problem, or
you may need to jockey the shifter
a little to the right or to the
front
a tad. The plate always goes
tabs up with the beveled/angled
tab on the passenger side.
Hell, by the looks of things, it would go any which way! :-) But once
you see how the shifter works, you'll see how I arrive at these conclusions.
Remember, Front is Front as per Muir.
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It would help if you had worn shifting parts to put in as many new parts as
you can. If you still have the reverse problem, you could just keep driving
on that transmission until you can afford a rebuilt one. After all, you
don't spend much time driving in reverse do you? :)
Regarding the transaxle on a swingaxle suspension, you will have to loosen
the bolts that hold the swingaxle to the rear trailing arms, remove the
brake lines and emergency brake cables as well as the shifter linkage under
the back seat and the clutch cable in order to pull the rear out. Don't
forget to remove the shocks or at least disconnect one bolt from the top or
bottom mount. Then you should be able to pull the whole rear out. There is
no need to remove the axles unless you are replacing the transmission. You
can stand the transaxle up on the bell housing but since the input shaft
sticks out a bit farther than the bell housing, you should support the
transaxle on a couple of wood blocks. Then you can remove the nose cose and
replace all the necessary parts. Some nosecones use a seal where the hockey
stick goes into the nose cose. I have forgotten what years had it otherwise
if yours didn't have the seal, then it was just a bronze/brass bushing in
there.
While the transaxle is out, it's always a good time to replace the input
shaft seal. In order to remove the seal, I made my own tool out of a big
broken-handled screwdriver.
http://incolor.inebraska.com/elassley_bie/misc/sealremover.jpg This is a
copy of a tool a local VW mechanic made. You hammer it into the center of
the seal next to the input shaft and pry out but BE VERY CAREFUL not to
score the transmission itself or it will always leak after that unless you
always clean off all the oil and put in a lot of gasket sealer (rtv) before
installing it. You shouldn't have to do this though if you don't scrape the
surface that the seal fits against.
Make sure you have a Bentley manual or some kind of manual to guide you
along. I'll keep following your progress and see how you're doing. I know
this list is pretty dead compared to what it used to be, but we were/are a
pretty small group. Most people today don't even know what a listserv is
and I'm surprised that this list is still running after all this time.
I've tried to contact the list admin but never heard back and I've often
wondered if maybe it just keeps running by itself until one day it might
just go kaput when a server is taken out of service.
I plan on staying on the listserv as long as it's up and I'm able to keep
going...
Keep us post Asad!
NQ
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