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gear box reco
bug eyed - June 5th, 2003 at 11:33 AM

who does them well?


Dasdubber - June 5th, 2003 at 12:18 PM

Not sure where you are (not in your profile) but Lawrence up here in Brissy at German Autos has quite a good reputation with volkswagen (and porsche) gearboxes.

I have my swingaxle box in there at the moment.


56astro - June 5th, 2003 at 02:09 PM

Yeah, what he said

:thumb


duncombemu - June 5th, 2003 at 02:15 PM

Dasdubber, can you please let me know, when you get your swingaxel gearbox back from German Autos, what it cost to get done. I've got one to get 'fixed' too and I'd lke to know the costs involved.
Thanks.
Mark:thumb


Dasdubber - June 5th, 2003 at 02:50 PM

No probs, I think it will be around $600 but most likely mine will be a bit more because I am getting 3rd and 4th gears welded as well as an adaptor collar put in so I can run the later throw out bearing. Plus super diff and heavy duty side plate (not that that will be more expensive for the actual rebuild).

Short answer - yep I'll let you know how much!


bug eyed - June 5th, 2003 at 06:32 PM

So anybody down this way do reco's
(sydney)
why do you get 3rd and 4th welded ? dasdubber


duncombemu - June 5th, 2003 at 08:13 PM

Thanks Dasdubber!
Regards,
Mark:thumb


matara - June 5th, 2003 at 09:09 PM

Jan over at Wolfsburg in St.Peters Sydney rebuilt the gearbox in my splitty. Did a good job, but it wasn't cheap. To give him credit it was a drive in drive out job.

There aren't many people in Sydney that have the tools/knowledge to do this sort of work.

Cheers

Steve


bug eyed - June 6th, 2003 at 12:29 AM

i've heard about shimo

who is henry ?


jakriz - June 6th, 2003 at 01:32 AM

Both CT & I just had identical close ratio gearboxes built by Richard Holzl at V-Force in Sydney. He's at Mortlake 97431247.
regards
Jak Rizzo


bug eyed - June 6th, 2003 at 03:20 PM

who is he


amazer - June 7th, 2003 at 07:00 PM

I dont know who henry is.
michael shimo works at dunham automotive. woonona, north wollongong.
phone numbers are in the VW business directory.


56astro - June 7th, 2003 at 09:32 PM

I think the "Henry" you refer to is ...

Henry Spikack (?)

Where he works is anyone's guess.

I'm sure there are people here who would know him.