[s-cars] 5 Speed Wooooooooos

[djdawson2@aol.com]

Mark,
As another lister posted, I have experienced the same thing.  Back when my original 5 speed was in the car, I was out on a late night WRC fantasy snow run in the mountains of CO.  I was running the wheels off the car, and did a 1 - 2 slam that didn't come together as planned.  As a result, the car was very difficult to get into either 1st or 2nd, and felt like it was dragging very hard when I was trying to get it into those gears.  It was so bad, I thought I had REALLY hurt something... enough so that I started sending panic emails to Germany inquiring about my CRB 6 speed that had been on order for 6 months.
 
Well, over the course of the next week... it just went away, to the point where you could never tell the difference.  I'm not a believer in mechanical "healing" either... but that's what happened.
Hope yours is the same.
Dave
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Strangways <strangconst at rogers.com>
To: s-car <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 23:29:13 -0400
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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