No Reverse??

[drew at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (Drew)]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 15:47, John S. Lagnese wrote:
> Sounds like an adjustment problem to me.

I'm with "Tranny-man Ron" on this one.  Reverse gear in the later 020
and 02A gearboxes is made out of china or ceramic or some equally
fragile material (like that stuff they used to make matchbox cars out
of?)  They don't take kindly to rolling shifts into reverse.

The running and driving fine without reverse is probably a temporary
thing - the bits of the broken reverse gear are looking for places to
come to rest - often they like to try to nestle between the crown and
pinion gears in the final drive, and then they get into an ugly argument
that everybody (including the car owner) loses.

If the car makes ugly clicking sounds in reverse, then run, don't walk,
away.

Drew

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Ewing" <MK1Scirocco16v@comcast.net>
> To: "Scirocco-L@Scirocco.Org" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:24 AM
> Subject: No Reverse??
> 
> 
> > Hey all!
> >
> > My mom is looking at a VW that says it has no reverse.  It's a 97
Jetta so
> > it has the 020 trans and looks like the linkage has been messed with
so
> > maybe just an adjustment???
> >
> > My question is to all the tranny experts out there.  Is there a way
that
> the
> > 020 tranny can drop reverse and still be fine in all the other gears
as
> they
> > said it runs and drives fine without reverse??
> >
> > Dave

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84 Wolfsburg Ed. Scirocco GTD     http://scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca/gtd
89 Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Avant
94 A3 Golf GL TurboDiesel, 99 A3 Jetta GL TDI
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