I didn't have any shudder, noise, abrupt event ... just deceleration while
in 4th gear at about 40-45 and I couldn't shift it at all either.Turned out
to be the 4th gear ... I still have it for a paper weight. It cracked into 2
pieces, an inner and outer so it was a circular fracture all the way around.
You may have the same thing? Not so sure it's a weakness so much as one of
those things that happens with time and wear.
I fortunately have an excellent shop and they took the tranny out, Daryl of
aatransaxle.com sent a box and he's the one that rebuilt the tranny. As
always he
did his usual superlative job.

bob
'87 Syncro Westy

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@yahoo.com>wrote:

> Well, I had a catastrophic something failure a little while ago....
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> Driving down the road at 45 mph, and suddenly the car shakes like it went
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> Then it smoothed out and I went another 1/4 and tried to shift and couldn't
> shift.  I turned into a subdivision and pulled over.  I can't shift it and
> when I let out the clutch it seems like it is still in gear.   Got a ride
> home and now awaiting AAA to bring the van home.
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