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Hi all,
I have an '81 diesel rabbit, older 1.5L Diesel engine with a newer 5 speed manual tranny.
Several months ago I was doing about 70 on the freeway in 5th gear, tried to downshift to 3rd and accidentally got 1st instead. (It was a long road trip, I was tired...) It ground pretty badly, but didn't go into gear.
Since then, it feels like I can put it into first, but nothing happens (no noise, no movement, no clutch resistance; it's like it's in neutral) when I let out the clutch.
I cannot put it into gear without depressing the clutch and being at a almost complete stop. It was like this before.
All other gears shift and work as expected (though some gears do have other issues: 2nd is hard to shift into at times (resists being shifted into) and sometimes grinds when I shift down into it, and 3rd gear will sometimes grind when shifting down).
My two prime suspects (based on forum browsing) are:
A. The synchro gear on 1st (Seems more likely, but also more expensive/more work)
B. The shift linkage (This is indicated by the other gears being sometimes hard to shift + general old age, but seems like it would still be possible to engage with some finagling?)
I have not drained the oil in the tranny to look for metal pieces.
I have tried to stick the tranny in 1st by manually moving the linkage around, but no luck. However, I'm not certain I knew what I was doing.
Does anyone know what may be wrong, or has anyone had this or a similar problem before?
(Sorry if this question has been posted before. I'm a forum noob, and though I did try to look beforehand, I didn't find anything.)
I have an '81 diesel rabbit, older 1.5L Diesel engine with a newer 5 speed manual tranny.
Several months ago I was doing about 70 on the freeway in 5th gear, tried to downshift to 3rd and accidentally got 1st instead. (It was a long road trip, I was tired...) It ground pretty badly, but didn't go into gear.
Since then, it feels like I can put it into first, but nothing happens (no noise, no movement, no clutch resistance; it's like it's in neutral) when I let out the clutch.
I cannot put it into gear without depressing the clutch and being at a almost complete stop. It was like this before.
All other gears shift and work as expected (though some gears do have other issues: 2nd is hard to shift into at times (resists being shifted into) and sometimes grinds when I shift down into it, and 3rd gear will sometimes grind when shifting down).
My two prime suspects (based on forum browsing) are:
A. The synchro gear on 1st (Seems more likely, but also more expensive/more work)
B. The shift linkage (This is indicated by the other gears being sometimes hard to shift + general old age, but seems like it would still be possible to engage with some finagling?)
I have not drained the oil in the tranny to look for metal pieces.
I have tried to stick the tranny in 1st by manually moving the linkage around, but no luck. However, I'm not certain I knew what I was doing.
Does anyone know what may be wrong, or has anyone had this or a similar problem before?
(Sorry if this question has been posted before. I'm a forum noob, and though I did try to look beforehand, I didn't find anything.)