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Transmission Woes
Posted by Andrew J Huang (more from Andrew J Huang) on Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:22:02
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00

Well, the saga of my 1995 Aero worsens.

I had bought this car early this summer to replace my 16 year old,
faithful, and bulletproof, VW GTI. Although the GTI was no problem, I
thought I'd just make a preemptive strike against unreliability with
as new an Aero as I could afford. A $20K withdrawal from my house
turned up this nice 1995 Aero, 70K miles.

In the past months I've had to do:

Dump valve
APC Solenoid, $200 + 60 labor
Manuals
DI cassette
TCS bleeder

And last week:

Transmission $1500 + ??
Engine mount

And after all that, I don't think I'll have solved the nagging problem
with lack of full boost!

The story about my transmission is this. I bought the car long
distance and had it checked by a mechanic before concluding the deal
(another long story there...). When I picked up the car, in my first
shift into 3rd, I knew something was not right. The shift graunched
and the shift lever moved too much when coming on or going off
throttle. However, over the months, I adapted and noticed 3rd less.

In the past two months, though, I occasionally got very deeply
disturbing, violent jerks from the car, almost like a clutch
grabbing. This would happen as I backed up the driveway, or sitting
at a light, in neutral, with the clutch engaged. Always a pair of
very strong jerks. I couldn't place it; I could feel it through the
car, but it was low frequency so it wasn't the engine.

Well, last Monday it happened again at a light, but this time it
stalled the engine. And when I restarted, and put it into 1st to go,
the car would not budge. And after some panic and moral support from
the people stuck behind me (and I do mean support, not the 'Get a
F***ing American car, Chink,' that I used to get in Boston), I
realized that the car would move in neutral. Great. So I burned a
couple mil off my clutch to get it started and limped to work.

The situation was, then, that I could shift into 1st or 2nd, but not
3rd through 5th or R. And if I did, the car would not coast, even
with the clutch disengaged. With the lever in neutral, I could coast
with the clutch disengaged and I was in 3rd. Apparently, the
transmission had shifted into 3rd by itself and was stuck there.
Possibly by breaking a shift fork, or the shift collar. The damage
was internal.

The new (rebuilt) transmission is on it's way from Saab, fighting
Christmas UPS traffic. Meanwhile, my mechanic, who drove it to his
shop in 3rd, found that all the gears are back, but it makes unhealthy
noises. And that the upper dogbone mount was broken, probably as a
result of the shock from essentially dropping the clutch in 3rd gear.

The eternal optimist says that I've fixed the last problem. The rest
of me says that I'm broke.

Cheers,

-andy
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