Thread: volkswagon bus question
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12-19-2004 04:43 PM #1
volkswagon bus question
im helpin a buddy of mine restore his bus, and his transmission just died and ive got a cherry-picker engnie hoist but im not sure that it will help much with the tranny swap. Does anyone know how we could do the swap as painlessly as possible? thx
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12-19-2004 05:10 PM #2
Well, a transmission jack shure works nicely to let the trans down, theres also things that sit on the end of a hydraulic floor jack ( where it normally meets the frame of the car ) and it adds the extension peice needed for a transmission removal.You don't know what you've got til it's gone
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12-19-2004 05:33 PM #3
ya got jack that mother up on jack stands & do it that way, for me it would be an easy task since i have owned about 30 VW 7 worked on hundreds of them. BUT for someone who has never done it it may be a bitch. get this book http://www.motolit.com/1562614800.html "How to keep your Volkswagon alive, a manual of step by step procedures for the compleat idiot" by John Muir. read it & it'll sound like he's standing there by you telling you what to do. hell i got mine back in the 70's & still use it when ever i need to....joeDonate Blood,Plasma,Platelets & sign your DONORS CARD & SAVE a LIFE
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12-19-2004 07:28 PM #4
Changed one in the DRIVEWAY of a local gas station in St Louis Mo. Back in the sixties. Low-buck College student. Belonged to a room mate. Took us three days!! Jack stands and a borrowed floor jack.
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12-19-2004 08:38 PM #5
thx guys, ill let yall kno how this turns out
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12-19-2004 08:39 PM #6
damn BOB did ya like st louis???? i have seen you talk about this city many times... &&&&&&&&&&& 3 days to do that, you should of done it w/a level head (joking). but really if it a 60's or early 70's bus you should be able to have it all out on the ground in a few hours. hell i use to be able to change a clutch in my 62 bug in about 45 minutes, start to finish....joeDonate Blood,Plasma,Platelets & sign your DONORS CARD & SAVE a LIFE
Two possibilities exist:
Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not.
Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. Clarke
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12-19-2004 08:59 PM #7
None of us had any VW experience, or metric tools, Took an evening after classes to pull, then a day of searching for another one, then finally got it back together the next evening. COLD evenings!!
I really did like "Mizzura", I probably would have stayed but I had a girl friend from Rolla with big starry eyes and dreams of eight kids and a sub-division house... Had to make a quick exit after graduation!!!
Then again there were those stupid "Blue laws" ie: can't buy tools on sunday, etc.
Used to go to "Pacific" and race a Pontiac powered Ford Falcon, also raced MAR and Alton Ill. and St Louis International was 1/8 mile. Used to skip Wed evening classes to go to Alton for the "Gasser wars" and saw the "Hemi under glass" roll over backwards.Last edited by BOBCRMAN@aol.; 12-19-2004 at 09:05 PM.
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01-22-2005 07:24 PM #8
depends what year, newer transaxles will come out w/ out taking out the engine. older one just use a floorjack, theyre only bout 70-80 lbs.
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