[Vwdiesel] Transmission blues

[Roger Brown]

Check the oil level, 5th gear is the first to suffer with low oil.

And check the linkage for any slop getting into 5th:
  http://www.4crawler.com/Diesel/ForSale/ShiftLinkageInstall.shtml#DiagnosingProblems

If you can move the linkage by hand after trying to get into gear with the shifter then 
you may have some worn bushings or a mis-adjusted linkage.


On 4/26/2012 3:38 PM, Pam & Doug Boes wrote:
> My trans. on the Caddy has been slowly getting worse for getting into 5th.
> No after a lot of tries I might get or I might not. Is this a sure sign the
> trans is done or is this symptom something that can be overcome by a new set
> of linkage bushings?

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   Roger