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

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.

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....joe

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.

thx guys, ill let yall kno how this turns out

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....joe

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.

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.