<VV> Oh Crap! Zero Speed transmission....
Tony Underwood
tony.underwood at cox.net
Wed Sep 9 00:18:15 EDT 2009
At 02:07 PM 9/8/2009, Kinzelman, Andy wrote:
>Regarding John Robert's reply - specifically: 'pull the front cover off
>the tranny to remove the stub by knocking it out'.
>When a friend broke his input shaft - we removed the 'stub' through the
>diff using a 'magnet on a stick' - worked well.
When I broke an input shaft in the Corsa ragtop and drifted into the
parking lot where I worked (was feeling frisky and banged a vicious
2nd gear to bark the tires and impress the coworker I saw standing
out front) I just rolled into the usual space and parked as if
nothing happened. (I have my dignity... and the tires hadn't
barked and nobody had been impressed)
After work, I got a ride home from a friend and took stock in my
situation, rounded up what tools I'd need and piled them into the
trunk of the Plymouth and went back to work (still had several hours
of daylight) to see what was what. I figured I'd broken the input shaft.
I'd brought with me the necessary specialty tools to get the engine
out of the car in the parking lot, which I did. I pulled the shaft
out of the transaxle and found that about 3 inches of it were
missing. I wound about 30 or so turns of fairly beefy stranded
hookup wire around the clutch end of the replacement input shaft and
hooked the ends to jumper cables, slid the shaft into the transaxle
til it "hit home", then attached the cables to the battery,
magnetizing the shaft which allowed me to extract the snapped-off
piece. Reassemble, drove the Corvair home, got a ride back to
work and retrieved the Plymouth and drove IT back home.
I stopped bangshifting any Corvair with 11" wide tires on back after
that. (the same tires are still on the back, getting pretty old now
and they need to go)
Hell, I don't bangshift any Corvair anymore regardless of what tires
it has. It's no fun yanking an engine on the side of the road in a
parking lot. People tend to stare.
tony.. still have the 3" piece of input shaft on my carnage shelf
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