Friday - Tranny

I think Friday afternoon I started further monkeying with the tranny...

Used my new hex socket to remove fill plug... No signs of oil.

Went to drain plug. No access from underneath. Went to get drill/hole saw to make access. Battery dead. Go for spare battery. Also dead.(rather expected since they sit for months at a time in various states of charge and out in the cold.)

No way to remove nose cone from transmission with it in place.

Remove rear tranny mounts, still not much movement.

Get my new triple square bit and get the bolts that hold the CV shafts to the tranny out.

Tranny wiggles now, (and car rolls) but definitely going to need to disconnect that front mount. Two more bolts from below and it's out. And nicely doesn't weigh much.

Nose cone off of tranny and I see the "hockey stick" I've heard reference to and see how it would slide these gear sliders in and out. I spend probably an hour or two monkeying around, but by the end of the day or the next, I pretty well put it together in my head that it's stuck in 3rd gear. Still doesn't explain why the input shaft doesn't turn.

By then I had enough charge in a drill battery to make a hole for future draining of the tranny fluid.

Oh, and I also removed the drain plug. There are signs of something oily, but not really any oil in the tranny to speak of. It also still doesn't really want to turn as it should nor exit 3rd gear.

I think I may have started putting the new lugnuts on as well.