Re: Tranny trouble

["Billy T." <btylaska@onramp.net>]

My guess is that you broke the shift lever.  The part costs 13 bucks and
can be put on in an hour...  actually less, but you will get a minimum
hour charge.  However, yours should be covered under warranty.

b-


Allison H. Feldhusen wrote:
> 
> Hi folks
> 
> Well my GLX('95 5sp,97k miles) seems a bit upset with me for ignoring it
> for a week while traveling.  We were on the way to drop the other
> vehicle(Mazda pickup) off for a 3 day stay at the dealer(rear oil seal) the
> GLX decided it wanted attention as well.  I had to jump it earlier in the
> day due to a back door that had not been closed all the way for a week.  I
> let it run for a while in the driveway and then went about 12 miles or so
> on local roads to the highway.  I finally got some room and moved over to
> the left lane. As I  went to up shift from 4th to 5th, the shifter felt
> like someone had replaced the oil with glue, and it wouldn't go into 5th.
> After determining that something major was wrong, I hit the hazards to let
> the person who was following me in the truck know something was wrong and
> dove for the breakdown lane.  There looked underneath, no liquid leaking
> out, 2nd and 4th are there but the shifter wont go near R-1-3-5.  I limped
> it to the dealer and left it there for the morning.  Any ideas what this
> might be?  My old GLI exhibited a similar problem when the engine mount
> broke, but I'm not sure  that this would produce the same symptoms in the GLX
> 
> Well looks like I'm driving mom's old Volvo until 1 of the vehicles is done.
> 
> TIA
> 
> -al
>  '95 GLX aka the Black Cloud.