Bill Lucas

I waws driving home from my son's basketball practice tonight and came up to a 4 way stop. I stopped , went to shift into first and heard two distinct clunking sounds and had no gears on the car.

I was able to push it to a safe location and am heading back to it in daylight to check it out.

Is it possible that the linkage simply came loose or did I lose my transmission.

Not an enjoyable end to the evening for me.

75ohm

Stick wobbly? Check to see if the E-clip came off by pulling the shift surround cover and boot. Next item up for bid is the linkage to the top of the transmission itself.

Jeremy Himsel

did ya check to see if you broke a CV joint?

Bill Lucas

Well, it's your normal sloppy shifting 944 but I think the e-clip is intact. I'm really hoping the linkage you mentioned is the culprit.

Thanks for responding.

FRporscheman

Does it make any new noises while idling? Does the noise come/go if you depress the clutch pedal? If there are noises, and they go away with holding the clutch, that would point toward a bad tranny. That's what happened to our 944.

Catfood

could be your spider gear Ive had that happen twice on my NA 944. Has the car been in a head on collision or do you have a different tranny in it?

smkn951

happened to me before and the culprit was the linkage came apart from where it connects on top of the tranny. hope it's this simple.
good luck

Bill Lucas

I just had the car towed to my home. Inspecting the bottom of the car I see that the left half shaft is not connected to the transmission anymore.

Is it possible that I'll *just* need a half shaft or is this an exploded transmission? As I posted, there where two distinct loud clunks when this occurred.

Bill Lucas

Catfood,

There is no evidence of a head on collision and it's the original transmission. The car is a 1989 944S2.

Bill Lucas

Jeremy,

Spot on! Couldn't check in the darkness last night. Would it only be the CV Joint or something else in the transmission along with it?

JayP

Sounds like the cheeseheads backed out. Have you changed out the CVs lately?

Bill Lucas

We did the clutch a little over a year ago. The car has been running great and everything was torqued properly then but...who knows. I've been wanting to replace both rear half shafts anyway so I guess now is the time.

frexe

did u use loctite on the bolts?