I'm wondering if his clutch disc didn't disentigrate?

DM&FS

At 10:35 PM 12/30/2007, Jonathan Poole wrote:

>Hello List,
>
>A good friend of mine purchased his first Vanagon last week.  He bought an
>85 gl passenger van with a manual transmission.  After driving up the state
>of Mississippi on his way to his home in Memphis TN his transmission stopped
>working.  I am going to phone him to talk through some trouble shooting
>proceedures but wanted to contact the list on two points.
>
>First does anyone on the list have a lead on a good and hopefully cheap
>manual transmission in the case that his proves faulty.
>
>Second does anyone have any suggestions or experience with the symptoms that
>he describes as:
>
>".....stopped at a red light was taking off .....think i was in about 2 or
>3rd gear...and it seemed to have jumped out of gear.....i clutched
>it......to find that the gears were no longer there....so i coasted to the
>high school where it still sits......i tried going into every gear....but
>they don't seem to be there....i can even crank it and shift through the
>gear pattern with no clutch pushed in....it doesn't grind.....i checked the
>linkage up to the tranny housing.......its all fine.....climbed under and
>shifted it by hand.....so its something inside the housing......any ideas as
>to what it could be?..."
>
>Thanks as usual,,
>
>Jonathan Poole
>'83 AC Westy