Sounds like a NEARLY identical story!! Thanks, and while it boosts my
confidence a bit, naturally I'm still uneasy about whether something more
major is wrong.. but hey I guess that's the nature of the beast! I'm sure
you breathed a sigh of releif too when you found out it wasn't the trannie.
Us syncro owners fear that more than a dinner party with Gingrich, Clinton
and Saddam!

Thanks for the info. I too will keep you and the listees posted concerning
my progress.

At 01:25 AM 5/3/98 -0400, CanineWolf wrote:
>Sorry for this being so late but I have been behind on school work lately.  I
>had this happen to me last summer....boy does it suck!!!!  I had a knew
clutch
>put in and t/o bearing put in so I know it wasnt due to rust or anything like
>that.  I also had replaced all my tranny/differential fluid with redline
>MTL....so Im just at a loss to why this is happening at the time it happened.
>I thought maybe the van was too hot...it was my second day out on my trip
>through our country and had traveled about 500miles that day so far and when
>we exited off the highway outside of Cleaveland Ohio I couldnt get out of 3rd
>gear.  AT least you were on a down hill...I was on the up hill....somehow I
>got through the light and into the gas station rideing the clutch to hell and
>haveing all the traffic beeping at me!!  So I looked under the van and
>nothing..not a sign of anyting wrong....then I let her sit for awhile and
kept
>pushing on the shifter....and then started her again and pulled on the
shifter
>with the clutch pushed in.....some how it popped out...I could then go into
>second and reverse with major trouble but it went it...so we left the gas
>station to see if anything else would happen.....WELL IT DEFINITALLY
>DID.......there was this lovely loud snap ...than kinda bang....and the van
>shifted smoothly ever after!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Somehow she fixed herself and now
>its been 24k since then.  From what other listee's have said I think that it
>was syncronizer that went, I just hope that doesnt happen again.  I also
think
>that if it wasnt that then it is the bushing that need to be replaced(which I
>plan to do sometime in the near future).  Well hope that helps you and if you
>need anyother info email me.
>
>Tim G
>87 gl syncro(164k)
>

"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you
look at it right"

Hunter/Garcia