[T3] Noisy Tranny

[Sean Bartnik]

Keith
Your best bet for a transmission rebuild on the east coast is Matt Steedle in New Jersey. 

You can find him on Instagram @mattsteedletransmissions

He does great work, has all the tools and nice stocks of NOS bearings and parts. Nice dude too. 

He is busy so best is to plan in advance with him about 6 months out. 

-Sean

> On Sep 25, 2023, at 11:51, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
> 
> Rebuilding VW trannies is really hard. I suspect that most of the rebuilders
> out there don't bother with all the checking and reshimming that a careful job
> requires. Bearing dimensions are extremely precise, so you can skip the
> shimming if you're only replacing bearings, but I would not be surprised if the
> rebuilders end up mixing and matching ring & pinions to use as many old
> parts as possible.
> 
> If you asked for a change in final drive ratio, I'm willing to bet that you got a
> different (used) R/P set with the shims it came with, but no new shimming to
> fit your case. That's not a good choice.
> 
>> On 24 Sep 2023 at 21:25, Keith Park wrote:
>> 
>> The one thing I don't do is Trannies,  so I had the trans for the 2056 built
>> by a shop on the WC that was recommended by Raby at the time.
>> It had to go back initially as the gear whine was so bad that I had to turn
>> up the music, it came back, much better, but apparently they should
>> Have put some new bearings in that they didn't as now I have a very noisy
>> mainshaft bearing.
>> 
>> Tranny still works great, but I started hearing it a couple years ago at
>> idle with the clutch engaged at idle, and now its whining pretty good as you
>> go thru the Gears.
>> 
>> No noise with the clutch disengaged, but noisy when its engaged in Neutral
>> or any gear, so its not a pilot bearing, and since only the mainshaft is
>> turning in neutral (correct?)
>> 
>> It would have to be one of those bearings correct?
>> 
>> Years ago the original tranny slowly got noisier and noisier and I think it
>> was a secondary shaft bearing, finally chickened out and replaced it.  How
>> long can they go on a noisy bearing?
>> 
>> I don't have time to pull the engine this year, probably not next year
>> either and I have a lot of miles ahead.
>> 
>> Not quite as easy pulling the 2056 as it is the stock engine.  And of
>> course, I need to somehow find somebody local here in NY that knows what
>> they are doing rebuilding VW transaxles.
>> 
>> Keith
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