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{Vent} I keep this car why?



Well, Kathy might have the silver headache, but I have the Black Bitch
of Death.  I haven't had any problems with my 16v since July and was
starting to get really paranoid because nothing had gone wrogn with the
car since.  Well, last week she deviated from peacfull servitude.  1st
gear became a sometimes only gear and it was random, sometimes when cold
other times after running just fine in traffic for a good while.  

To make matters worse, Friday on the way home I managed to get it into
first gear at a stop and while compleating a turn in 1st, it suddenly
popped into nutreal and tried to go into reverse, not good.  So saturday
I replaced the main shift rod bushing/bracket and now I'm having all
kinds of hell.  My bently has walked off somewhere so I didn't have the
proper alingment procedure but I tried my best.  My best wasn't good
enough and every time I'd make a change and see how it worked, I was
always without at least one gear, sometimes two.

As the car sits now, I can't get into 2nd, but thankfully a friend of
mine is back from school for break and has his bently handy so I'll see
about doing this the right way tonight.

Sorry for the long e-mail, just had to vent since for now I'm sharing
the toyota with the wife as all 3 of our VW's are out of service :(

William
-- 
88' Scirocco 16v (Crabby 16v)
89' Cabriolet 8v (dead bunneh) RIP 8/25/03
71' Karmann Ghia (air sucker)

http://www.techography.com/scirocco (s.org forums)