 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Car Forum / Volkswagen / Water Cooled Volkswagen Cars / April 2009Polo Gearbox grumbling
Our 97 manual (1600) polo has recently developed gearbox bearing noises - the sort that you just know are going to go from "slight" to "we need to fit a more powerful radio in this thing" My independent mechanic thinks the car is toast - cost more to fix than its worth, he pointed to another one in the workshop and said that it's gearbox had done the same thing and he was stripping the car for parts. What do the mages think? Seems a shame - Km's 110,000 otherwise very tidy. Dave (no not that one) I had a noisy tranny on my 67 Beetle. I got another tranny from the scrap yard. I drove another 100,000 miles on that used tranny before I sold it. My friend's dad took that tranny apart to see what the noise was. They had a 66 squareback with a noisy tranny. Is it possible that the noisy bearing is one easy to get to? I know some are quite buried. >Our 97 manual (1600) polo has recently developed gearbox bearing noises - >the sort that you just know are going to go from "slight" to "we need to fit [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Dave (no not that one) Hi Jim - not sure really. Being somewhat time poor I would end up paying someone else to change out / repair the box..... >I had a noisy tranny on my 67 Beetle. I got another tranny from the > scrap yard. I drove another 100,000 miles on that used tranny before I [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> >>Dave (no not that one) The availability of a "low miles" salvage yard transmission is a deciding factor as well. That and labor hopefully shouldn't run more than $700USD plus a typical 3-month junk yard warranty (but no labor). > Our 97 manual (1600) polo has recently developed gearbox bearing noises - > the sort that you just know are going to go from "slight" to "we need to fit [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Dave (no not that one) > What do the mages think? Seems a shame - Km's 110,000 otherwise very tidy. No "mage" here, but I once had a 1969 Westie - many, many moons ago - that developed a very loud gearbox - sounded like glass-in-a-blender at about 90,000 miles. So, I drained the fluid (it was not low, by the way) - good bit of metallic sludge, rinsed it with kerosene several times - put in 80% hyploid oil, 20% moly-disulphide paste (made for trannies, not the bearing-grease stuff) and a magnetic drain plug. It cost me something like $20 at the time for the stuff and $5 for the magnetic plug. But it worked and a bunch cheaper than even a junkyard tranny. Sold it ~50,000 miles later still running fine. Not kitten-quiet by any means, but certainly below Heavy-Metal on the 100-watt stereo level. NOTE: It never leaked fluid. Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2009 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.