RE: 16v tranny self machine question

[Gary Huff <ghuff@htech.com>]

It will feel weird, almost like your transmission is locking up, and your
clutch will start slipping, or it may not depending on which side gets
machined. but most of all usually your tranny just feels like its locking :)
I know a guy who had is machine at 70mph at summit point raceway a few years
ago........... he said the clutch started slipping, then boom smoke
everywhere. and 150,000miles seems to be the general time in which these
diff rivets decide they dont like where they are. about a day before it
really went, the shifting was fine and the tranny felt perfect actually, so
you wont feel it until it actually goes or starts going. the only thing to
prevent this is to have a bolt kit installed. They have to pull the trans
apart, drill the rivets out of the diff, and replace them with bolts. Might
was well get it rebuilt while its apart and out of the car. I was running VW
authorized gear oil in it, the person I bought it from had just changed the
gear lube 10k miles ago, and refilled it with the dealer stuff, so it isnt
the gear oil causing it I dont think :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Captnbr@aol.com [mailto:Captnbr@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 11:26 AM
To: scirocco-L@scirocco.org
Subject: 16v tranny self machine question


I have heard a lot about this lately.  OK, exactly what happens in the
tranny 
when this happens?  My rocco has aprox 150,000 miles on it and I pray that 
this will never happen.  Can you tell it is going to happen before hand, are

there any signs that it is about to happen?  I consider myself to have an 
excellent tranny for its age, No grinding, smooth shifting, syncros seem 
good. is there anything that can be done to prevent it, like frequent oil 
change. My driving style in this car, and the previous owners driving style
wasnt bad. we both didnt hammer the shit out of it, drove it normally but a
bit spirited when we wanted to. I mostly do highway driving out here in
maryland usually 45-70mph. All I can really say is that this sucks worse
than anything I have dealt with VW wise before. You may be able to detect it
early if you feel like changing your gear lube monthly, and looking for bits
of metal and shavings. That way you could catch it before it blew its way
out the bellhousing. other than that, just beware or always have a spare
rebuilt trans laying around I guess :) Thanks,
	Gary Huff

To those who have had this happen to them, what fluid were you using?  Were 
you using Red line?  I have heard people swear by Red line that it makes the

shifting real smooth and I have also heard it can cause problems later down 
the road.  I have not done the switch yet.

What type of driving do you do., city, Highway, balls to the wall at every 
light, never reving past 5000.  I am just trying to correlate these things
to 
see if it can be prevented.

Brian 86 16v
Knocking on wood right now 

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