Last friday i was driving into the city and while i was just cruising along in 4th suddenly a loud noise and no more 4th, i was able to limp it of the road to the next gas station where i pulled over and smelted the horrible smell of gear oil...I decided to try to get the car home since i still had 1st, 2nd, 5ht and 6th gear.
After driving a couple minutes in 5th a loud noise again and no more 5th, i put it into 6th and this one worked normal, like nothing was wrong with the car.
I made it home, picked up my Beetle and went on my way to the city again to party and forget about it until i found what you can see in the picture the next day.
It seems like there is some kind of bearing that missing, there is no excessive play on the shaft so this makes me believe that the failed bearing could be my only problem, hopefully !!!
Funny thing is that the germans made a removable cover to acces this bearing, would they maybe know that this one could potentially fail??
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snap! That sux Edwin!! I hope it turns out to be a simple lil' problem... Keep us posted.
GL bro.
any diagnosis yet edwin is it an issue related to the lwfw like i was thinking
Well it seems like only that bearing has a issue... Also after talking to several people it seems like this is a pretty common failure in our gearboxes, i am the first that had only this bearing fail though, most people found that the bearing was on its way out after they openend up their GB for other problems.
I honestly dont think my LTW FW was the problem, it might have made it fail earlier but i`m not to sure about this.
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