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Transmission Probs..

I posted this the other day but our 'puter messed up the newsgroups and wasn't able to see the rsponses or my post for that matter...

I had a severe squealing in my cardan joint/front driveshaft, finally the dealer has replaced the driveshaft and joint....on my very first outing with her, the manual stick shift kept poping out of gear when I was in 4 low... I didn't really notice it until I had been crawling over some serious rock terrain for already close to an hour or so... now it's not constantly poping out but every now and then... my previous question was.... do you think that they could have done something while installing the drive shaft??? or possibly did I hit something or drag across something to do the damage??? Then last night I mentioned it to a friend and he said "sound like you've screwed your Syncros".

It is a 2003 TJ Sport Stocker w/ Engine/oilpan skid, Transfercase skid, fr and rear diff skids and Warn rocksliders... so I feel like I'm pretty protected under there...

Whatcha think ppl??? TIA, Jeff

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oh yes...fogot to mention that I am also having a hard time getting it into third gear on the street and possibly getting worse...then last night I found if you don't fully push the stick forwrd that it doesn't go into first very easily either....

like I said...my buddy thinks syncros....any other ideas?? Thanks again, Jeff

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Jeff

Broken engine or tranny mount is the most likely. Second likely is you have shifted the body tub on it's mounts.

Popping out of gear has no bearing on syncros.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

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That could imply it has hit hard, hard enough to shift the tub maybe? I would be taking a tape measure to it just to see.... I shifted my CJ's once. I was kinda tipped over though to do it....

Mike

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Assuming the shifter/shift fork is fully engaging the gear in question, jumping out of gear is almost always caused by worn teeth on either the gear itself, or the clutch sleeve (that's the sliding ring the shift fork moves to engage the gear). A worn synchronizer will just cause it to grind, not pop out of gear.

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L.W.(ßill) Hughes III

Hey Bill....how would this be caused??? how do they become damaged?? would/could it be something that I did?? it's just that going into the dealer is getting to feel like going to the principals office... Thanks a Heep! Jeff

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