Re: Transmission help.

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

Maybe your throwout bearing collapsed or seized?
    -Josiah

Crane, Damien wrote:

> Hey all you tranny meisters,
>
> I have a new problem.  I was in a rallycross yesterday and something
> unpleasant went on inside my transmission.  I started out fairly gently
> (loose surface--lots o'spinning, don't you know) and shifted into second and
> got on it hard for about 50 yards into a tight left.  I get the car sideways
> and am hard on it again (still in second) to pull out of the slide and some
> where in there (hard to tell with the noise of the rally car and the flying
> rocks and stuff) an ugly rattle started.  I stopped my run and inched
> forward.  More big rattling.  Gave up my run, the race, and the series
> championship (sounds dramatic, doesn't it?) and pushed car back to safe
> area.  The noise seems to be coming from the input shaft.  We were able to
> drive the car onto the trailer, but something would occasionally bind and
> release (rattling all the while), feeling really painful.  Any thoughts?
>
> the code has been beaten off the case, but the transmission should have come
> out of an '86 GTI
>
> TIA
> Damien
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