Re: Help - Stuck In Third Gear

[Chris Taylor <chtaylo4@vt.edu>]

At 12:29 PM 11/17/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a problem everyone -
>I was driving on a straigtaway and downshifted from 4th to 3rd to pass
>someone.  After passing i went to Shift back to 4th but it didn't happen.  I
>pulled over to the side of the road and stopped the car.
>I looked at all the shift linkage and it was ll joined fine (i determined
>this by trying to pull and push the gear selector right up where it joins the
>transmissin but it didn't work (it was really hard to move)
>Do any of you have any ideas what could cause my scirocco 16v to be stuck in
>3rd gear?
>Is this an internal or external (of the tranny problem)? Thanks for any
>ideas!

You probably broke the tranny mount.  This happened to me and my friend
every now and then, until we bought POLYURETHANE transmission mounts.
Unbreakable, more power to the ground, NICE!!!!!!!!!  Check it out.  Mark's
got good prices.

Chris Taylor 
'87 16v Scirocco

West Ambler Johnston Hall
Virginia Tech Campus
chtaylo4@vt.edu
chtaylo4@aol.com

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