[DML] Re: Transmission Problem - any ideas

["jtrealtywebspannet" <jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like you will be pulling the transmission and clutch. Once you get it out and apart it will be obvious what the trouble is!
David Teitelbaum

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "daviddelorean" <daviddelorean@...> wrote:
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> My car has a manual transmission. I noticed slight slippage over the course of a few weeks (the car was in gear but wouldn't move as if in neutral). Then one night coming home doing 45mph complete slippage. Also noticed a very bad smell I could only describe as 'burning oil'.
> 
> Drove slow and made it home and parked the car. Went out to the garage 2 hrs later and the 'burning oil' smell was so bad I thought the car was on fire. Also, a large pool of transmission fluid had dumped out of the gearbox onto the floor (by large I mean the whole area under the rear of the car was a swimming pool).
> 
> I start the car regularly and drive it up and down the drive way 50' or so. Gears still work. Car moves. But that 'burning oil' smell is always present.
> 
> Any ideas what this can be?
>




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