Trevor,
This is the "classic" sound of the layshaft(countershaft) rear bearing
being chewed up and grinding it's way into the layshaft and
laygear(cluster gear). At this point the layshaft is gone and driving
any farther will destroy the cluster gear (expensive). Yes, I made the
$200 mistake of thinking I could "get a few more miles out of it".
Good luck,
Jim Davis
Fortson, GA
'75 TR6 CF38690UO
'75 TR6 CF37325U
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997 04:23:36 -0400 Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
writes:
>Although I haven't seen it myself yet, my friends
>TR6 transmission has perhaps given up the ghost.
>
> I'm told the symptom is that shifting into any
>gear is very difficult and the gearbox is making
>a horrible squealing metal grinding sound. This
>apparently came on suddenly.
>
> All gears still work, his girlfriend drove the car
>home from the incident, about a block or so.
>
> Anything we should be looking at? I can think of
>some general ideas, but hopefully somebody has some TR6
>specific ideas? (I don't own a TR6 myself)
>
> He has a spare tranny in the car that I mentioned
>a few months ago that his girlfriend wrecked. Any
>tips on swapping trannies appreciated as well.
>
> (One suggestion I can think of, stop lending
>prized LBCs to girlfriends)
>
>--
>Trevor Boicey
>Ottawa, Canada
>tboicey@brit.ca
>http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
>
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