transmission problems help please
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transmission problems help please
i have a 93 awd turbo 5speed legacy that runs great.i was doing snow drifts one day then was driving it home then the car felt like it just went into nuetral. i tried to put it back into gear but would not go back into gear. the car still runs fine just doesnt move. does anyone have any idea what it could be?
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93forestpearl
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cj91legss
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is it just one gear you cant get it into?
few years back i was dumb enough to do the same thing. lost my second gear for a few weeks and kept having to go from 1st to 3rd..... Eventually my second gear wored again, i think the synchro was off for a little bit and a couple friends told me to just drive around alot and it would wor its way back into its rightful position...
it actually helped for me.
few years back i was dumb enough to do the same thing. lost my second gear for a few weeks and kept having to go from 1st to 3rd..... Eventually my second gear wored again, i think the synchro was off for a little bit and a couple friends told me to just drive around alot and it would wor its way back into its rightful position...
it actually helped for me.
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fishbone79
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Did you lose all the gears at once, or just one gear? If it's all of them, there's a chance it's a linkage or fork problem. Were you jamming gears at all? Does the shift line up and pop into the gates where the gears used to be, or is it completely mush? This is all assuming you're not dealing with a clutch explosion...
Losing a single gear is generally a very bad sign... Usually it means that a bearing or two is completely shot and the shaft will no longer stay in the correct position for the gears to mesh (or for you to select them). If a gear comes back, it is really by chance and there is no guarantee it will stay. Was there really no noise? Are there noises now?
That said, it's been my experience that manual trannys will run for a looooong time with bad bearings. The shafts will eventually find their way back to some semblance of order if you drive it real nice and easy, but as soon as you hammer on it, they'll pop off again. I babied a tranny with intermittent 4th gear for ~10k miles.
With the car idling in N, clutch engaged, do you hear an abnormal bearing wirr? If you do, it's probably a problem on the mainshaft up front before the split.
Losing a single gear is generally a very bad sign... Usually it means that a bearing or two is completely shot and the shaft will no longer stay in the correct position for the gears to mesh (or for you to select them). If a gear comes back, it is really by chance and there is no guarantee it will stay. Was there really no noise? Are there noises now?
That said, it's been my experience that manual trannys will run for a looooong time with bad bearings. The shafts will eventually find their way back to some semblance of order if you drive it real nice and easy, but as soon as you hammer on it, they'll pop off again. I babied a tranny with intermittent 4th gear for ~10k miles.
With the car idling in N, clutch engaged, do you hear an abnormal bearing wirr? If you do, it's probably a problem on the mainshaft up front before the split.
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93forestpearl
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My old 5mt (with 200k) used to have noisy ass bearings before I switched to a 6mt. It worked great except for the 1-2 balk ring when hot.
I can't say that I've heard of the linkage locking up on one of these, but anything is possible. Maybe a rock stuck up in there?
I can't say that I've heard of the linkage locking up on one of these, but anything is possible. Maybe a rock stuck up in there?
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