Re: Tranny trouble

["Allison H. Feldhusen" <al@bbn.com>]

Well I just got the word form the dealer, the linkage just fell apart.
They said it was rather worn but the ext warr covered it.  


At 09:54 PM 11/21/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>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.
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>b-
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>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.
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