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Originally posted by joesplace62
Thom, I blew up a tranny a few years ago also, and put in a used one. The car still seems to shift into all the gears OK and was able to move under its own power into the garage. It also doesn't make any unusual noises while idling in neutral. I put a new coupler in the shift linkage last summer and have looked at it a couple of times since then, so the cheap possibility doesn't seem likely.
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With a bad synchro, you will be able to shift into the gears, ie there's nothing physically preventing the actual shift operation. However, the second you put a good
load on it, it will pop out of gear. Some people have milked some extra life out of them by being super-gentle with the gear in question, or even holding the shifter (bungee-ing 4th on a VW is common) but when it's broke, it's broke.