Jason, This is not a uncommon problem with rev. on the later IRS trannys. You have to treat rev. as if it were made glass. I have repaired a lot of these trannys over the years mostley for rev. gear. You have a choice of replacing the whole unit with a used one and hope its good, Buy a rebuilt unit from a vender and hope they will help you out if something goes wrong (been there,done that.Interesting sometime) or I can repair it for you here in Chatt. I would have to order the parts if I did it. You would get a warr. also.  If you come to the meeting tonight we could talk about it or you could call me .  423-894-3374

Jason you can get a rebuilt irs off the net for under 400 shipped... Check them out. If they go wrong you can always get david to rebuild it.. BUt I think you will be ok? Did david say weither or not it can be fixed? HE knows what he is doing.. He is the MAN>>>>>     :lol:    



                   Aaron

Herb I stand corrected....  :lol:
 I wished that I could help out with the bug a puluza, but I have to work 12 hours a night every weekend... I don't think I can even make it this year.. But the way that it is looking I can make it next year...... Take care and it was my pleasure to meet everyone......

 

             Aaron

OK. Now Jason I would fix it if I could..  I mean because it will work a lot longer. Just think about this. If you get a used one for 100 bucks. And it goes out in 1 month then another 100 for another one and so on you are losing money not saving it. Know what I mean?


       Aaron

Jason, When you do make up your mind about your tranny, I would start looking for a double cover IRS box. They have a rev. gear that is a little stronger. You also could go to a type-2 like a lot of guys do. They have the benefit of  much lower gearing and are very tough. Cost more money,but I think they are worth it. It really is how hard you want to play. If there is going to be one car in yard that is going to be perfect it would be the Buggy/rail. You haven`t lived until you try to tow/drag a wounded Buggy 20-30 miles through creeks, rocks and over mtns with another Buggy. Been there done that.  Off road riding losses its charm when this happens.

Jason, `68 -79 Type 2  trannys look alot alike. There are differences along the way. At one point ,there was a mainshaft difference that would not let you just bolt up a Type-1 engine. I can`t remember the years. Maybe someone out there in "Rail World" knows.  I do know that `68-71 WILL work for sure. If you use a `68-`71 Type-2 you would have to come up with a way to "Hang'" the trans. in . The bell housing on the `72-79 had mounting holes on top and you can hang the tranny from them.
  It could be that some company is making mounts to do this already. I would check some VW magazines out and see.Your Rail Buggy would love this. If it can get traction it would scale a wall much less pull stumps. :lol:  :lol:

Bugtech I found another rail buggy that has a bus rear tortion in it with a IRS transmission. But he has a bus transmission to go with it. To me thats a good sign that the bus transmission is bad. It has a 1600cc motor that he said the coil was bad on. I thank it's a cobra frame. Someone has cut the front spindals and added metal to lift it. He wants $1400.00 for it. I was thinking if I could get the price down I could put the IRS transmission in my rail and put the bus transmission back in it and hope for the best.