Your rear end ring and pinion gears may be shot. This will put all power to the front diff. VC. In other words you have a front wheel drive only Syncro. Try jacking up a front wheel and see if the rear wheels want to put it off the jack. Joe Christopher Gronski wrote: >OK I have some very weird shifting symtoms. > >Towards the end of a VERY long drive to the West Coast and back >(10,000 km / 6,000 miles). I was exiting the interstate and pulled my >van out of gear, put in the clutch, but could not get into ANY gear. > >I managed to coast into a gas station using inertia. I started the van >in gear got it to the pumps, refilled with gas, and then the van drove >normally for anther 1,000 m / 600 miles) home. > >Now ocassionally second its hard to find, but that comes and goes. I >don't think this is the clutch as I am not getting a "grind" when I >try to change gears... its like the gear itself will not engage. > >That said, I did have some symtoms a while back where I would >accelerate but the revs increased much faster that the van accelerated >(almost like I had the clutch part way in). > >My van is a 1986 Syncro Westy GL with a stock 2.1L engine and tranny. > >At 97,321km (59,254km / 36,577 miles / 6.5 years ago) the PO had the >following work done: >Transmission Linkage >Clutch >Final Drive Seals >Input Seals >Mainshart Beering >3rd & 4th syncro >Needle Beering >Mainshaft (used) >4th gear (used) >Pinion Beering > >At 111,229 km (45,346km / 27,991 miles / 3 years ago) I had had the >transmission oil changed with readline and the brake / clutch fluid >changed (Frank Condelli am I missing any other tranny work you did?) > >Any thoughts? > >Chris > >P.S. Yes that math is right, the PO only drove the van 13,908km / >8,585 miles in the last 3.5 YEARS he owned it. > > > > |
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