My Car Broke

[DangerDan]

Well on my way home, about three street from my house, was coming down a hill and felt the car accelerate quickly as if it wasn't in gear. U stopped at the end of the street to turn right, put it in first, went to take off, and the car just revved. Thought it was in neutral but wan't. Also didn't sound to good.

Since my dad was home, he used his NRMA van to tow me home. While pushing her up the drive way, fluid leaked out!!!

Im really worried and need someone to take a closer look as my dad dosen't really work on them at work so hasn't got a background knowledge.

I think its the CV joint or something in the gearbox as you can still select gears, and the clutch is still fine. It just wont move.

Any tips will be well received. I really dont want to have her down and out.

Thank god i have old faithful to get me round in the mean time

[gldgti]

definately sounds like a cv joint

[FACT HUNTer]

Sheared pinion in the diff perhaps.

[DangerDan]

are they easy to replace?

[49thdiver]

cv joint

Never heard of a sheared pinion, my monies on the CV joint.
Take a look at the CV boots if they are damaged and have grease on the outside that's likely the problem.
There not hard to replace but you will need some special tools.
If its that badly damaged you will want to get a half shaft assembly, best to buy it new they are not too expensive.

Good luck

[DangerDan]

I've taken a look at it and it looks like its more to do with the diff and the bearings. In other words need to probably take the whole gear box out.

[velly_16v_cab]

sounds like the diff pin...common on mk2's

[Golf Loon]

If you take the box out and bring it down mate we can crack it open together. I know you are on a budget and we have lots of gearbox parts here

[velly_16v_cab]

If you take the box out and bring it down mate we can crack it open together. I know you are on a budget and we have lots of gearbox parts here

nice one matt

[Golf Loon]

nice one matt

Thanks man, spead the golf lovin I say

[Rob Burns]

This may seem like a weird thread bump but it is related.

I bought Dan's car last weekend. Had a little bit of a drive last week but with the wet weather didn't get to give it a real drive.
With that in mind I decided to take the car out for a good drive today through the Kuringai national park. Pulled out of West Head road changed into 2nd gear, changed into 3rd gear going around a blind corner and the car came to a screeching stop, skid marks and all. Car seems to be stuck in two gears which means it couldn't be pushed off the road either.

I walked up the road to warn people to slow down and a few minutes later some water police came down the road. They decided to control traffic until the tow truck arrived (well they controlled it until their knockoff time and then got a normal cop to take over).

Guess I'll rip the trans out during the week and see where to go from there. Already called Matt of Camden GTI while I was waiting for the tow truck. Apparently he's got some diesel boxes coming in in a couple of weeks. Might just wait until one of those arrives instead of trying to fix mine.

[Golf Loon]

Trying to remember what we did to resolve the issue with this box last time.

It wasnt a full rebuild, I think just a couple of bits were changed. i`ll ask the guy who builds the boxes for me.

Diesel reatios are best for a pokey petrol engine and they are tough as the proverbial.

[Rob Burns]

Just to clarify, I didn't mean it was related in that it was something you did, I meant that it was related in that it involves the same car in the thread. Sorry if it looked like I was saying something different.

Anyway, once the transmission gets ripped down we'll have a better idea of what went wrong.
Just out of curiousity, there must be a way to change the car to cable shift instead of linkages. I've never had good things with linkage shifts.

[Jmac]

Yeah go a new box mate im sure something has sharted in the box to lock up like that. when you strip one of them down you lock it in 2 gears to loosen gear 5. So something has let go
Good luck with that
Jmac

[DangerDan]

Its either cursed or a bad box, aren't cars fun.