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The Curse of Moses... I can't believe this.
Last night I took my 12 year old son out for a drive in my new 3.6 SC. I have about 50 miles on the conversion at this point.
Driving aggressively, but not crazy, I shift from first to second and hit the gas. I hear a nasty sounding clunk-clunk-clack-clack and various other sounds of steel parts engaging against their will. I coast to a stop. No power to the wheels. Motor is fine, but there are no gears to be found. Tranny is AWOL. (Maybe just the linkage?) I have less than 5,000 miles on a freshly rebuilt first and second gears with new dogs teeth and synchros. Well, my son gets behind the wheel and steers as I push the car home with the help of some great neighbors. Ah, building memories with the lad. I will have AAA tow the car to a NEW shop this AM. I think I'll try Kahlers in Dublin. Anyone have any thoughts?
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DOH!! that really sucks moses. Hopefully it's something easy
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  oh man!!!! I feel for thee. Hoping it turns out to be inexpensive. Good luck!
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Tres Bummer....
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If it turns out that the Tranny is blown, at least you can consider the taller gearing.
I'll bet it's something simpler though. Clutch works fine?
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Zoom, zoom, boom!
Power corrupts, Moses. 
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Could be as simple as a CV joint?
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Go CV joints!!!
I hope you have an easy repair ahead of you. Perhaps all that new found torque destroyed your old cv joints.
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man oh man oh man
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Sorry to hear this, I enjoyed hearing about your recovery yesterday and now this? Good Luck!
Owning a Porsche is much like golfing...... it's humbling. (Just after I've shot my mouth off about a good round of golf, I'll shoot my worst game. I had to get my car push started in the parking lot of A&W last week)
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I will hope that you only munched the CV joints.
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Sounds like what happened to me. Broken drive shaft.
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AHHHH!!
Get out that magic costs-calculator... Hope it turns out to be (real) low-cost and easy. We'll be waiting to hear. |
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I know that it's sick Moses but I was kind of laughing / crying for you when I read this. Jeez man why don't you just stand in the middle of the square and prepare to be stoned to death!
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 Good one Doug.I was thinking it's a lesson of "a chain is only as strong as the weakest link." The impulse at a first-second shift has got to produce huge torque. I believe the turbos have beefier CV's . . . maybe something to look in to.
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