The Bentley manual has a pretty in-depth chapter on the auto-stick.  On my list of "things to do as soon as I have time" is study that chapter and try to get this 68 auto-stick in my back yard back on the road.  

Well !!   Now this is a "Animal" of a different color. These trannys really got a bad rap through no fault of its own from a lot of people. You have to think of it being a 3 speed manuel with a vacumn operated clutch/pressure plate with a torque converter between the tranny and the engine.  A whole like the Mopar fluid drives of the '40s & '50s. The problem was that owners and a lot of mechanics didn't know that you had 2 types of lubes to deal with.  ATF in a tank in the engine comp. for the torque converter only and 80-90 gear in the gear box. A lot of folks thought the ATF took care of everything and compleley forgot about checking the 80-90 lube in the gear box. These trannys loved to leak the gear lube out and you had a "melt down".   The other common problem was that drivers would just leave the tranny in the top gear (4th on a manuel 4 speed ) load the car down and head for the mountains. Look at it this way. Put 4 people in a Bug and try to go up Lookout or Signal Mtn. "W" road in 4th gear without changing down a gear. With a "Blazing" 53 hp in '68 ,You can imagine whats going on in the torque converter . How about another "melt down" in the ATF section and a good chance of melting something down in the engine,like a piston or two.
    VW finally put out the word to use all 3 speeds all the time. This helped but by this time the word was out to forget about Auto-Sticks. To bad. They just were not that bad if you took care of it.
    I wish I had a dollar for every one I worked on. Fixed one once in a while .   :lol:  :lol:

Hey good deal !   There are no filters you have to deal with. There are a few adjustments you can do if a problem shows up.  Any good brand of ATF works. Most of the ATFs are type-A now. Use these. Check levels when warmed up. DO NOT OVERFILL unless you have a "Jones" for cleaning off the driveway :lol: