>Hello all, > >I have a transmission question. I have a 2wd, the engine does not >work and I have never driven it. I contacted the last person to >drive the vehicle and he told me the tranny was rebuilt 1 yr before >the engine went out. > >He did say something odd.... like the linkage was off and he would >find himself in 2 gears at once??? Is that possible? > >What is wrong with the linkage or is there something else wrong? > >peter If the reverse lockout pawl is inserted the wrong way it can allow the trans to occasionally select two gears at once. It happened to me with the beefed 091 I put in my 75 with 3.6-liter alloy pushrod hemi Toyota V8. On a trafficlight on the main street at 8PM on Friday... No way can the shifter linkage cause this. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut |
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