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Originally Posted by Jerome74911S
My guess is this: Since five of the teeth show very little wear (except for being broken off), but the sixth shows a great deal of wear in addition to being broken, could it be that the unworn teeth were broken a long time ago (the oil maybe never was changed) and the worn one was broken recently?
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Originally Posted by Jerome74911S
I haven't abused the car, but I don't know it's history. A local "Porsche mechanic" who had my car for some work evidently let his son drive it (!) and the son reported that it was hard to shift. God knows what that story turned out to be.
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Make up your mind. Has the problem existed for a long time or are you going to blame the mechanic and his helper son and kill the messenger?
Sorry. I just get tired of the tendency people have to need to blame someone for every little thing that breaks on their 30 year old vintage sports car. The mechanic is trying to help you and look after your car and this is the thanks he gets. If you didn't feel any substantial difference in how the car drove and shifted between the time you left it with the mechanic and the time you drove it home, I'm going to go with your initial instinct that this damage was already done to the gearbox when you bought the car and you are just discovering it now. You have said nothing above that points to an abusive test drive while your car was in their care.
I would consider yourself lucky. With the chunks I am seeing there, it's a good thing that your gearbox isn't locked up and siezed. The right thing to do is stop driving the car and tear down the gearbox at your earliest convenience. Finding this out now before the next chunk breaks off and runs through there could be saving you thousands of dollars in repairs. That gearbox is a timebomb and it's not a question of if it's going to explode, but when. It's a sure thing. You now have the opportunity to put the fuse out before it blows.