Miata Mailing List: May 1994, Message #163
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   From: Jason L Rahaim - Personal Account 
Subject: Arrgg..
   Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 09:13:15 -0400

  Im Sitting here looking out my window on the first Sunny day in a month, 
reading the posts and thinking, wow Ill take the long way into practice today
and enjoy the weather. Then I look out into the Driveway.. what the H*ll. 
There is a Ford Festiva where my car should be. Oh yea.. My Trans. Locked up
Thursday, (15 months/45,000mi in Warr. YEA). Worse than that, if I want to
go to the AutoX Sunday Ill have to bring the Ford. Blah. Hope it comes home
soon. 
   Ok. Now on to my question. The simptoms for my trans. (Manual - 92 Base)
were as follows. I was backing up in a parking lot. When I went to put in first
to go forward again it didnt move. It acted like it had the emergency brake
on. Checked it. Nope that wasnt it. Well people wanted to get by so I tried
to put it in R again to get out of there way. The Stick would not go further
to the right than the 3rd/4th area. and would go into 3rd / 4th (or 5th and R
for that matter.) ok.. put it in Nutral, turned it off and tried to push it. 
Wouldnt budge. got in and pushed the clutch in and it rolled (2 people pushed me
out of the way.) Started it up and played with it. In the Nutral position it was
in revers. In 1st or 2nd it seemed like it was in Reverse and 1st or Reverse
and 2nd. Got it towed to the dealer and the mechanics didnt beleive my
descriptions of the symptoms, so they tried everything I mentioned. When
I talked to them Firday afternoon I found out 5th and R were shot and would
be replaced. Ok.. HERE IS MY QUESTION (realy) Should I be concerned with my
clutch after all this? does being in 1st and Rev. burn out a Clutch quickly?
IS there a chance in H*LL that Mazda would pay for a new clutch even if it
was caused by their Trans.?
       Jason - I Dont wanna autoX a Festiva.