OT: TDI tranny

[koabi.brooks at gmail.com (Koabi Brooks)]

Mine's a 98 so it might be similar.  I suppose this plastic lever comes off
the cable shift linkage on the tranny end?  I'll have to look for it.  It
sounds like a good match to the plastic oil pan

On 8/4/07, C Boyko <roccit_53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It may or may not be this, but on mine, at one point I could use any gear
> as long as it as 2nd or 4rth. The gears in the "upper" part of the shift
> pattern were not accessible (R-1-3-5). Luckily I parked nose into a spot
> that I could roll backwards out of or I'd have been pushing her heavy ass.
> Anyway, there's a plastic lever on the gearbox end that fractures and
> eventually snaps (if it's abaout the same vintage as my 99). Yours may be
> fractured, so check it. It's a quick fix if that's all it is. But plastic,
> how cheesy is that?
> Cathy
>
> On 1:10 am 08/04/07 "Koabi Brooks" <koabi.brooks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > My TDI is shifting funny after an encounter with a flooded road.
> > Shifting into 1st is particularly troublesome, but 5th and 4th aren't
> > as smooth either.  I am quick to blame the hydraulic clutch because
> > it feels like shifts at higher RPMs are smooth but any short shifting
> > or shifting into 1st when the car is totally stopped is difficult.
> > But I have a bias against the hydrau clutch pedal because the feel
> > sucks.
> >
> > scirocco content:  the 020 tranny is *still* getting rivets drilled
> > out.  I am paranoid that I will go into the ring gear.  The rivets
> > were intact but there were a couple of cracks visible on the surface
> > that might have developed into something worse if the remained in
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