Close but I have yet to experience this problem WITH the engine running.
It only happens at startup. Usually the starter will give a faint click
and then the whole mess is locked up. The tranny I guess is not locked
up as I can move the car with the lever in neutral. nay other
suggestions?
>Original Message-----
From: A. B. Bonds [SMTP:ab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 1997 11:59 AM
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: All locked up!!
In
<c=US%a=_%p=Starwave%l=FOLSOM-970528184110Z-237882@singsing.starwave.com
>, Randy Rees wrote:
>Next query. 67 BGT, original engine tranny.
>
>Now the problem. For no reason the engine will lock up when I turn the
>key. I put it in gear and the car wont even move. Push it down a hill
>and drop into second gear and the tires just squeal, the engine wont
>even turn over. Put into third gear and you get a little chirp and then
>the engine tranny turn over and car runs. This has happened three times
>now in about five weeks. Starter? Tranny?
It may well be the tranny. You don't report how the state of the
clutch figures into all of this.
There is a little moving fork kind of thingie in the tranny that
allegedly prevents the 1/2 gear cluster from being in gear when the
3/4 cluster is in gear and vice-versa. This fork can become displaced
and cease to function properly (been there, done that). Consequence
is that the tranny locks. Engine runs OK so long as clutch is
depressed, but stalls when you let the clutch out and the rear wheels
appear to be locked. You can work yourself out of this condition by
messing with the shift lever, but it ultimately will need fixed.
Gotta drop the tranny to do so. Once that is done it's an easy fix.
A. B. Bonds
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