There is a place...right on the East side of the interstate....what is that...loop 12? At the intersection of Jefferson Blvd and loop 12, NE corner. Has a double wide as the office. That place somehow has always seemed to have a very large supply of mid to late WC gearboxes on racks.
The VW supply seemed to be drying up in the yards even as far back as 2007 around Dallas. I was wondering the same thing. I have the feeling that because of the value and popularity of VW parts alot of them are ending up on trucks from insurance auctions going to other cities or states.
I think for the most part they stopped ending up in the Jefferson Blvd yards or similar yards....because for the most part those are metal recycling houses (unlike Pick-a-part)...and the parts have a higher value on VW's in general now...than just scrap.
I have never really seen any yard practices as appalling as I saw in the South-side Dallas yards. Ungodly waste of parts. Some cars sit for ages...most cars for too short of a time and then to the crusher to make room for more. I would watch people take a hammer to a front windshield just to get to a blinker relay.
The favorite "South of the Border" style I saw there for moving heavy parts to the front...was a perfectly good engine hood with a rope yoke being used as a sled. Appalling!
Yes....that was a diesel Dasher I was pulling that transmission out of . And...it was the oddest transmission I have ever seen. It was a five speed case...round end cap...linkage, late case.....but it only had four speeds in it
...only four gears...and 4th was a very long gear. I have been looking for info even years after I traded that car in....for info on possibly diesel specific 4 speeds in the five speed case just to figure out what I had. I put another 100k miles on that transmission. Ray
Ray