Re: Broke axel/tranny durability?

[Mark Peele <type53@yahoo.com>]

--- Joe Doty <rocco2nr@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Two issues...
> Is broken axles a common problem with these cars? 
> The car I had now had a 
> broken outer CV spline on the drivers side, it was
> sheared off flat.  Plus 
> there were pieces of a roller bearing floating
> around inside the tranny.  
> The car I got my tranny out of (an 86 gti) had a
> broken axle.  Are these 
> trannies durable?  I hope I didn't buy a hotrodded
> tranny for $350.
> 
> Joe

I dunno. I don't think so. In 23 years of driving
Sciroccos, I've only had one axle break.

The weakness of certain VW trannies is the dreaded
"self machining syndrome":

http://www.spiretech.com/~vw6spd/rivets.htm

HTH




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Mark Peele
1981 Scirocco S, 1982 Scirocco, 1978 Scirocco, 1987 Golf GT
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