*#!&ing speed-o gear

[ranahan@charter.net (John Erickson)]

Actually, the odds are pretty good.  I got mine out that way.  There's 
another guy I know of that lost his gear and it disappeared out of 
sight.  He started the car and let it idle in neutral (no gears 
turning).  There was enough oil movement to cause the gear to float by the 
speedometer cable hole (yes, it floats!) and he nabbed it.

HTH

John.
Long Beach.

At 11:39 PM 8/13/2002 -0400, calimus wrote:
>Well, I finally got around to slapping the gti rims & tires that my wife got
>from Brian H while up in Cincy on her cabby.  Figured since I made it that
>far I would put the new speed-o cable in as well.  A friend dropped by and
>figured he'd lend a hand so while I was looking at some things under the
>car, he went to pop the new cable in.  Well as luck would have it, he dind't
>notice that there was a circle clip on the old gear&cable so when he put the
>gear on the new cable and when to put it back into the tranny, the gear came
>off and down in the tranny it went.
>
>So, after many choice words were said, I'm now stuck.  I really, really,
>really don't want to have to drop the tranny outta the car.  What are the
>chances I could snake a grabber tool (little 3 claw thing) down in there and
>fish the damn thing out?  Or is there another way to get at the dam thing
>without having to drop the tranny?  I can't see one but I figure my friend
>can't be the only person to ever do this.
>
>William
>
>
>
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