Gilles, you are certainly an optimist Good luck.
Admittedly some of the Lsvw problems can be fixed by selection of more suitable parts. But some of it is due to poor engineering. And of course the drive it till it drops attitude of the operators did not help. At the end of the day though, the Lsvw was supposed to be a fleet vehicle, and it did not pass.
Here are a couple of pointers to head you in the right direction:
1: Replace the oil sendindunit with another brand. They were trouble from day one. The diaphragm in them fails and they leak out the drain vent hole. The less knowledgeable mechanics tried to block the vent hole with rtv but that only works until the pressure equals out on the diaphragm at which time you get zero reading all the time.
2: At one point the LCMMs talked about putting the bands around the drums like you would have on a brake lathe. Apparently that quietened things down.
3: We had a lot of failures, some of them fatal to the vehicle due to fire, of the multiple hoses running from the cooler to the transmission. Consider upgrading those as they start to leak.
The list on these is very very long, and as I am currently on holiday in Mexico, I do not want to spend any more time on Lsvws.
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