Recent content by dvancura2

I've got an 03 Jetta TDI wagon that I'm absolutely in love with. I love mine enough that I got a co-worker convinced to pick up a TDI himself for his commute. Well I've told him what I get for milage, and his isn't able to quite match mine, so now I'm doing some research on what got mine to this...

10 points to Gryffindor. Got my oil in so I could pull things and get it back together. Sure enough...we were trying to make new teeth out of the washer. I'm surprised because I did a fair amount of research before doing this, and I don't think I ever read anywhere that this washer may need...

I really should have taken a picture after I had everything in there to reference... What did you do to fix it? I ended up putting on a total of probably 100 miles and the sound is starting to go away, I can faintly hear it in 2nd, and sometimes in 3rd. If it is the washer rubbing, sounds like...

I've got a 03 Jetta 5 speed. I recently picked up a .658 5th gear swap and installed it. Got new fluid in, put back together, and took it out for a drive. I get the noise heard in the video. Everything shifts fine, everything feels smooth, ran through all the gears. 4th gear is probably the...

Ball has not been shimmed yet, has been on my list of to-dos. This thing is a mystery to me. As mentioned before, 2k and below on RPM from 4th to 5th, it'll slide right in no problem. I don't like doing that because it lugs the engine more than I would prefer. Sometimes as it goes in not...

So just a little more update. I got that bushing kit, and installed most everything, besides the cable end savers. Reason I didn't get those on was because the side to side cable still had the other bushing in it, and it was good enough I couldn't get it out. I tried to use picks and...

Yessir. Red Line (50304) MT-90 75W-90 GL-4.

So my whole lock pin engagement deal is not the case. After more investigation and understanding of how those work, I think I got something messed up in either the shift linkage, shift forks, or 5th gear synchro. It has gotten bad lately. If I go to shift to 5th, it sometimes feels like it hangs...

It seems the rest of the shift linkage is still all fine and dandy, it was just that shift lock pin got engaged randomly. Just seems odd.

Well, dug down to the shifting mechanism on top, took off all the cables to jiggle things around. I started playing around with things, and messed with the little lever below all the shifting mechanism. All of a sudden, it comes loose, and everything moves as it should again. Put everything back...

Just a little follow up, as that was my side of the road write-up as I was waiting for my tow. I've got about 160k miles on the clock and the stock 5 speed transmission. So I tried shifting from the seat with the engine both on and off. The car rolls fine right now. I tried jiggling the actual...

I've got an issue on my 03 wagon tdi 5 speed. I was taking off down the highway away from the stop sign. Everything was going alright. I went to shift from 4th to 5th, something felt like it caught or something, and now my jetta is stuck in a neutral between 4th and 5th. There's not much...