Re: $#!@ i can't afford this

[Kneale Brownson <knotnook@traverse.com>]

I remember your question, Joe, and I thought there was quite a bit of
discussion about possible problems from bypassing a gear while upshifting
through the gears, although I don't remember any definitive description of
that move leading to any damages.  Sounds to me like the syncros were on
the way out and now have "gone south" (or whichever direction you favor as
a negative).

Regardless, I'd think a junkyard tranny would make a lot more sense than
buying parts and installing them when you've never disassembled a tranny.

Kneale Brownson


At 02:10 PM 11/15/99 -0500, Edgar Allen Joe wrote:
>last year i posted asking anyone if they thought my 1990 80q's third gear
>grinding when i shifted into it accelerating was a gear problem or just the
>linkage.  nobody responded, but i've read some posts since then which have
>alluded to a lamentable third gear in the 80q's, so i figured it was in fact
>the gear.  i decided that i should just not shift into third while
>accelerating and have done that for the past year or so.  every now and
>then, however, i would be absent-minded or mis-judge something and the gear
>would grind.
>
>i now have no third gear.
>
>when i shift into third, it is fine until i give it gas, at which point it
>promptly pops out, grinding as it leaves.  i have a couple of questions
>about this situation:
>
>i need to replace this tranny, as the price for just the parts from AOA is
>in the neighborhood of $650, and that is a lot of money, especially since i
>have never taken a tranny apart before.  i am banking on some lister having
>a used tranny in good working order to sell me, but i am wondering if there
>is a better, more robust tranny that i can swap into place instead of a 1990
>80q box.  does anybody have such a tranny?
>
>Thanks in advance for your replies and help.
>
>1-2-4-5,
>
>joe brown
>