[s-cars] 5 Speed Wooooooooos

[Mark Strangways]

That pretty much defined what happened.
It did if fact lock in gear 2nd to be specific.

Did Bob ever have the tranny dropped and opened ?
I hope there is an easy fix for this...

Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Munro" <munrof at sympatico.ca>
To: "Mark Strangways" <strangconst at rogers.com>; "s-car" 
<s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 7:29 AM
Subject: RE: [s-cars] 5 Speed Wooooooooos


> Mark;
>
> Something similar happened to Bob Donnelly's S6 a couple of years ago 
> after
> a spirited run at the Sundridge ice drags. His tranny actually locked into
> 2nd and we had to work it a bit to get the shifter into neutral. It was 
> very
> stiff going into 1st and 2nd. I believe he had the linkage looked at but
> couldn't see anything wrong. He continued to drive the car and the problem
> gradually went away (he's got the limited-availability self-healing option
> on his car).
>
> Come to think of it, between the cars stuffed through the snow banks, the
> burned clutch, and Bob's tranny, my S4 was the only UrS that came away
> intact from that particular event. It was a fun-filled but expensive day.
>
> Fred Munro
> '94 S4
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Mark Strangways
> Sent: October 9, 2005 11:29 PM
> To: s-car
> Subject: [s-cars] 5 Speed Wooooooooos
>
>
> I now have some bad transmission problems, I missed a WOT shift from 1st 
> to
> 2nd.
> Things are not good,1st and 2nd are very hard to shift into and the 
> shifter
> does not go into neutral right. The shifter will hang over to the left in
> the first to second gate, not over in third.
>
> Is there any BTDT on this problem, any reports on failed transmissions out
> here would be very helpful at this point. Seems the tranny will be coming
> out, and getting opened. This is a 92 5 speed, non wide etc.
>
> I have not had any noise in first to indicate galling of the first gear, 
> as
> I have never really hammered it in first since I heard of this weakness. 
> Are
> there any parts out here for repairing this (whatever it turns out to be),
> possibly from some of the swapped out to 6 speed units ?
>
> What is the current 6 speed of choice ? and what dollar amount are we
> looking at.
>
> Thanks o' great S-List...
>
> Mark S
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