Re: transaxle-need help

[Slink <slink1@jps.net>]

Slink wrote:

 

Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:

Hmmm well hard to say if you're doing the right thing. This isn't really a
common trans problem that I know of. Where is the puddle coming from?

From the front of the car the left side of the engine oil pan

Find out where the transmission is leaking...

I didn't see any leaks from the transmission, and when i checked the oil levels, oil was coming out of the side hole

describe what the kind of clanking
noise is in more detail... is it always reproduceable? Does it happen just
occasionally or all the time? Is it rhythmic? Does it vary with vehicle
speed?

Only when the car is moving it would be like a clank, clank,clank.  Very rhythmic, and as far as variety in respect to speed: I didn't go very fast seeing that I didn't know the seriousness of the situation and didn't want to risk damaging the car any further.

    You may have a completely different problem altogether - doesn't sound
like typical transmission problems to me. Lots of them leak. Have you
checked the oil level?

Yes and as I mentioned above there was sufficient oil in the tranny

    -Josiah
    '84 GTI
    '87 QSW
    http://bork.hampshire.edu

Slink wrote:

> I am in the process of taking out my transaxle and putting in another. I
> would like to know whether or not if the action I'm taking is the
> correct one.  First, I am getting noise from the trans (like a clanking
> sound) that at the beginning used to be heard only when the car was in
> gear and moving (it wasn't heard when the car was moving when my foot
> was on the clutch ,or when the car was stationary), but now sound can be
> heard here and there. Second, there's a oil puddle (facing the front of
> the engine) around the left side of the engine. What I would like to
> know is there anything else that I missing that would insure that my car
> would be driveable after swapping in the transaxle.
>
> note: before I had this problem I couldn't shift out of 5th gear.
>
> Slink
> 85 scirocco wolfburg ed
>
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