Lost reverse gear this morning

[alan cordeiro]

Bernie, Kneale, other fans,

I drove the car up on ramps and crawled under. I could not find
anything loose in the linkage where it enters the transmission.
It appears the only way I can see the other elements in the
linkage is to open up the shifter from inside the car. (I got
occupied with family stuff after that.) I will probably do
this sometime later today.

Some "experimental" results/observations from yesterday:

a) All other gears, including fifth, engage with no ambiguity (except for
reverse..)

b) The amount of reverse "engagement" based on a short burst of gear noise
when I release the clutch, seems dependent on the slope of the car from
back to front. If the front of the car is much higher, it makes more noise,
on level ground, there is no noise at all.

c) As I roll slowly downhill, engine idling, with the car supposedly in
reverse,
I would have expected a reverse gear spur with a few broken teeth to
continuously
engage and the break free as the good sections and bad sections rotate into
mesh
position. There was no engagement at all, implying the gear is probably OK.

If any of these symptoms turn on a lightbulb in your heads, let me know. If
the upper
parts of the linkage seem to be set correctly, I will start to think it may
be a broken
shift fork or lever or something like that internal to the transmission

Alan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "alan cordeiro" <alancordeiro at comcast.net>
To: "Bernie Benz" <b.benz at charter.net>; "Kneale Brownson"
<kneale at coslink.net>
Cc: "200q20V mailing list" <200q20v at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: Lost reverse gear this morning


> Kneale, Bernie,
>
> Yes, every forward gear seems normal. My reasoning for suspecting
> a gear was that only reverse uses the extra countershaft...
>
> It would be great if were as simple as a linkage. I will look
> into the linkage next.....
>
> Thanks for the quick responses,
>
> Alan
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kneale Brownson" <kneale at coslink.net>
> To: "Bernie Benz" <b.benz at charter.net>; "alan cordeiro"
> <alancordeiro at comcast.net>
> Cc: "200q20V mailing list" <200q20v at audifans.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 5:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Lost reverse gear this morning
>
>
> > I'll bet your unintended clutch pop affected something like Bernie
> > suggests.  Does every forward gear shift feel exactly "normal"?   I'd
> check
> > the adjustment of the shift lever mounting.  If I remember correctly,
> > there's some alignment  allowed in that assembly.
> >
> >
> > At 07:51 PM 12/19/2005 -0800, Bernie Benz wrote:
> > >Not likely an internal problem, IMO.  Could be linkage, or mounts
> affecting
> > >the linkage.
> > >
> > >Bernie
> > >
> > >> From: "alan cordeiro" <alancordeiro at comcast.net>
> > >> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:23:05 -0500
> > >> To: <200q20v at audifans.com>
> > >> Subject: Lost reverse gear this morning
> > >>
> > >> I started up the car this morning, and let it idle while I brushed
off
> snow.
> > >> Got into the car, put it in reverse and was getting ready to slowly
> > >> back up, when my wet snowboot slipped off the clutch.
> > >>
> > >> The car shuddered and almost stalled till I got my foot back on the
> > >> clutch. I did not realize it until I parked the car in a parking spot
> > >> at a shop and tried to reverse. Under normal (gentle) clutching
> > >> this time, the car did a small jerk and then would not drive.
> > >>
> > >> I finally figured it would go forward but now backwards, so I pushed
it
> out
> > >> of the parking slot, and drove home.
> > >>
> > >> I almost seems that reverse gear engages briefly, and then gives out.
> > >> Did I break a few teeth on the counter shaft? So whenever it gets to
> > >> that spot it runs free?
> > >>
> > >> Any BTDT? or other suggestions?
> > >>
> > >> Alan
> > >>
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