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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 g啬�..... 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/