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Cool. Sorry for the misinfo. The Beetle I had that was pooping out of gear constantly got hit by a drunk while parked, so I never got a chance to get the tranny out to test that theory. -----Original Message----- From: Todd Daley [SMTP:todd@datacom.ca] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 3:21 PM To: type3@vwtype3.org Subject: Re: [T3] 2 more questions Popping out of gear is not caused by the synchros... the job that synchros do are spinning up the next higher/lower gear which you are shifting to, up to the same speed, allowing the gears to mesh properly without gØÄè ..... popping out of gear could be caused by misadjusted shift forks, or damaged gears.... Todd Daley 71 Squareback 71 Fastback James MacNaughton wrote: > Popping out of gear sounds like your synchros are dying. Not really an > *emergency*, but I'd get it fixed before I planned to drive too far. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/