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- Feb 25, 2006
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New Milford,
New_Jersey
I was fine tuning the car tonight with long 4th gear pulls to red line. I had just finished a pull, pulled over to tweak the map, and started slowly driving off. As I was driving I heard grinding. It sounded much like my bumper was grinding on the ground or on my tire. I pulled over within five seconds of hearing it. I didn't see anything. Started driving and didn't hear the noise for a minute. A minute later the noise comes back and the shifter just pops out of 5th gear. I tried to put it into 5th and it violently pops back out. I drove home slowly in 4th (only 2 miles or so). I pull into the drive way and notice that trans fluid is leaking out of the end cover where 5th gear is. When I looked closely there was an indent between the size of a nickel and a quarter where the fluid was coming out. I don't know how this trans went like this because all this trans pretty much sees is highway pulls, I never launch it from a stop. I'm not sure when I'm going to have the chance to pull the trans and I was wondering what this could be...