Re: This ever happen to you?

[Shawn C Meze <skerocdriver@juno.com>]

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:58:04 PST "Jorel Jackson" <kondor77@hotmail.com>
writes:

>You lost fifth gear all of a sudden? 


All of a sudden, for no apparent reason, it just stopped pulling the
gear. The shifter didn't move, I thought I had lost power until I muted
the stereo and realized my motor was reved to 6K. 


>Could you go back into fifth, only 
>it would pop out after awhile? 


I shifted into 4th, it worked. Accelerated to a shifting point for 5th.
Nadda. Nothing. No grinding, no engagement nothing. It shifts into 5th
gear, there's just nothing happening. When fully stopped I can shift it
into 5th and let the clutch out and nothing happens. Its just like its in
neutral. No grinding either. No sound, just the sound of the idle. 
I drove it another 30 miles today and I will drive it tomorrow (25 miles,
uphill from 300 ft elevation to 4,000 ft elevation.) 50+ miles. Saturday
I will open up the 5th gear housing and see what's up. Worse case I
install the 9A or even worse, put the FF back in. GADS! 


              Shawn Meze
86' Jetta GLi           82' Scirocco GTi
The Fastest, Quickest, Cleanest and
best looking Scirocco in all of San Diego!
http://www.Geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/1308/index.htm

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