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Transmission lock up!

To: healeys@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Transmission lock up!
From: "scott willis" <ahpowered@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:26:51 -0500
Here we go...problems sending...

>Dang.
>
>I drove the E hard today but wanted to get the Healey out too since I have 
>been on the road with work for over a month and a half and the dang Healey 
>will not go in gear.
>
>In neutral-ish it seems to be in 3rd or 4th. I got it out of the garage and 
>drove it around the yard and around the house. Now it is locked in a 
>3rd-ish position. It will start and run fine with the clutch in. When I let 
>it out it just puts on a load and dies yet it will not move. Zero movement. 
>I cannot move the shift lever even if I rock the car hard back and forth. 
>This has happened in traffic and I would just jiggle the shift lever and 
>all would go back to the standard pattern and I would wipe my brow and move 
>on.
>
>Now my E-Type is trapped outside because my BN7 is blocking the garage and 
>I cannot push it even with the clutch in. I jacked it up and spun the rear 
>wheel forward. The other side spins backwards! Hmmm.
>
>Any ideas on what to do next besides unhook the diff and push it around 
>until I can pull the tranny? My job is really in the way right now.
>
>Vroom, vroom,
>
>
>Scott Willis
>Mashed 60 BN7 AH Club USA
>59 MGA
>66 E-Type FHC
>http://www.geocities.com/bgeuroclassics/BG_Euro.html
>BG Euro Classics Car Club President
>Bowling Green, KY
>

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