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OT: TDI tranny
Might well be, and yeah, just look for the ends of the cables on the tranny
end, and you'll find the lever. From what I understand it's a common
failure point, and my shifting was sloppier before the failure. Mine's
sleeping for the summer again, but it's got an aluminum oil pan. And my
belly pan's 1/4" aluminum now too, that plastic thing's a pain in anything
but nice neat city driving. One snow drift and it's toast.
Cathy
On 9:53 am 08/04/07 "Koabi Brooks" <koabi.brooks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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 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" 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
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