Gear Box woes.

[Peter Jones]

Driving about today the MK1 stuck in 3rd gear. It was wedged in there solid. After pulling over and driving on for bit I could get 1,2,3 5 &R. 4th is completley out of the question. 1&2 take some convincing. 2>3 is an easy shift. R is difficult.

It's a bit dark and cold to do too much tonight.

A quick inspection shows all the linkages that I can see in the engine bay are ok. The engine mounts look OK too.

I suspect the shift forks in the box. Things just don't feel right between the gears. There were some noises too but those seem to have stopped.

Any thoughts anyone?

MK1 5 speed box (the tall ratio kind)

CHeers
Pete Jones

[gtimk5]

Wouldn't have a stray speedo drive gear in there, would it? I have seen that before.

[imported_brackie]

Good to see you back on the forum again, Peter. Looks like you're about to get your hands dirty. Probably not a good time to ask you about cutting some stickers

If the linkages are OK then unless Andrew's suggestion is the cause (and you'll knoe 'cos the speedo won't work!), it looks like selector forks.

[Golf Loon]

Yup Hoorah for Pete Jones, nice to have you back from the wilderness mate.

I`ve got a couple of gearboxes that I can zip down to you if it gets too messy

[Peter Jones]

I'm still here. Work been insane; they sent me to the US for a little while so I've been out of the loop. Before that we were flat out with the Commonwealth games.I've also got a beetle on the go so I've been trying to track down bits for that. The RC car club has been keeping me busy too. www.brccc.org

Traffic was pretty heavy so I didn't need to change gears too much on the way home.

I don't recall if the speedo was working, I'll pull the drive and check it out.



All in all a very busy time the last few months! Not a weekend free to play with the golfs.

I'll take the linkages off the box and try shifting it directly to eliminate the linkages form the equation.

I think a friend has a 5speed box down here I can use or just rat for bits.

I hope I can salvage this box apart from a diff whine it's been pretty good.

Are the shift forks a common breakage?

Do you mind stickers with greasy finger prints?

I think I'm in for a dirty weekend!

Pete Jones

[Golf Loon]

We love greasy stickers

Usually the self machining rivets inside those boxes, not the shift forks, but you never know.

Go the dirty weekend!

[Peter Jones]

The box is out. Took me 4 hours.. there were many "challenges" to overcome. There's nothing obvious and I can't get the main cover off 'cos I don't have te tools to get 5th gear off the end off the mainshaft. So it's off to my tame mechanic on Monday!


Meanwhile my other golf has been running way too hot. I suspect a blocked radiator but I was concerned about the head gasket too so I've just pulled that off and it all looks Ok. So tomorow it's back on with the head and swap the radiator over with golf number one. That way I can get the radiator looked at at the same time I get the box fixed, might as well drop off the heater core too.

Pete

[gldgti]

thats organisation...

respect mate

[Peter Jones]

Job's done, just beat the rain. I was moving a bit slower today! I think I spent about 50% of my time looking for tools, 30% looking for things I dropped and about 20% was the actual work!

No surprises, no left overs and it fired up on the first crank!

Next stop gearbox and radiator doctor!

Watch this space!

Pete Jones

[Golfwise]

Thermostats are the Golfs worst enemy.
Always look there first