Re: This ever happen to you?

["Jorel Jackson" <kondor77@hotmail.com>]

>To: kondor77@hotmail.com
>Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: This ever happen to you?
>From: Shawn C Meze <skerocdriver@juno.com>
>Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 01:49:19 EST
>
>
>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

Your experience sounded familiar, until you added more details. Mine 
didn't do that at all. I could still grab fifth. It would stay there for 
a few minutes then pop out. I was in the middle of North Dakota when it 
happened, five hundred miles from home. Drove back in fourth most of the 
way. It turned out I had lost all lubrication in there. The result was a 
dead transmission. Sounds like you don't even have a fifth gear anymore. 
Just be careful driving it tomorrow. Don't get yourself stranded.

JSJackson '85 Scirocco

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