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therabbittree
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I blew my Getrag and may be my clutch in my flat bed plowing a couple of days ago. Argh. I actually drove it home in nuetral!!! had to slip the clutch alot to get moving . . truck still smells like burnt clutch. .
It progressed from no problems driving my wife to work in the snow. On the way back,it would pop out of 5th gear . . it has never done that so I was a little curious. I plowed a few driveways and it was getting harder to shift little by little. In my second to last driveway it started squealling like a fan belt under the truck. . so I shut it off, as I shoveled. I figured it was the throw out bearing or pilot bearing in the flywheel. It may have been the pocket bearing for the transmission shaft?? I attempted to drive to my last drive way and it wouldn't shift unless I floated the gears without the clutch. Finally at the last driveway I made one pass and went to back up. It wouldn't shift into gear. so I tried turning the engine off, putting in 1st gear, then starting it, when I then let the clutch out. . it stalled. Same situation with reverse. With the engine running and clutch depressed, I put it in nuetral, let out the clutch out and the truck tried to move... so thats how I finally drove it home 3 miles. I had to slip the clutch to get going though. It seemed like it was stuck in 4th gear. Maybe it broke a shift fork? I have aparts truck with a decent getrag so I could swap it out. I am debating cutting the floor open and pulling the top off the trans to see if its broken fork. If it is, do you think swapping top and forks will work? or is the trans proabbly shot. I never had any other issues with this trans in the 4 or 5 years I've run it. I was over filled, BUT I didn't check the oil this winter. So it may have leaked down. I'll find out tommorrow I guess. any ideas?
Thanks,
Deo
It progressed from no problems driving my wife to work in the snow. On the way back,it would pop out of 5th gear . . it has never done that so I was a little curious. I plowed a few driveways and it was getting harder to shift little by little. In my second to last driveway it started squealling like a fan belt under the truck. . so I shut it off, as I shoveled. I figured it was the throw out bearing or pilot bearing in the flywheel. It may have been the pocket bearing for the transmission shaft?? I attempted to drive to my last drive way and it wouldn't shift unless I floated the gears without the clutch. Finally at the last driveway I made one pass and went to back up. It wouldn't shift into gear. so I tried turning the engine off, putting in 1st gear, then starting it, when I then let the clutch out. . it stalled. Same situation with reverse. With the engine running and clutch depressed, I put it in nuetral, let out the clutch out and the truck tried to move... so thats how I finally drove it home 3 miles. I had to slip the clutch to get going though. It seemed like it was stuck in 4th gear. Maybe it broke a shift fork? I have aparts truck with a decent getrag so I could swap it out. I am debating cutting the floor open and pulling the top off the trans to see if its broken fork. If it is, do you think swapping top and forks will work? or is the trans proabbly shot. I never had any other issues with this trans in the 4 or 5 years I've run it. I was over filled, BUT I didn't check the oil this winter. So it may have leaked down. I'll find out tommorrow I guess. any ideas?
Thanks,
Deo
