Ok, going out last night for some taco bell after work... The transmission was shifting a little stiff, but the clutch felt fine otherwise... Ordered, pulled through the drive through, still all good, get ready to turn left out of the parking lot onto the road [4 lanes with center turn lane], make it to the center turn lane and the car acted like someone pulled it out of gear. I stop, try to put it back in gear [still in gear though] and try to take off, no dice. Get out, under the hood, no broken axles, I hear some rattling, tension still on the clutch cable, but it won't move. Had the girl with me jump over to the passenger seat, another person stopped to help me push it over to the rock-ola cafe parking lot, and there's where she sat until my dad got here to drop me off another car and cart mine back home to our shop...

This sucks...

By all indications, I broke the tranny input shaft clear off

 

What was it, the LSD?

 

No, the input shaft to the transmission snapped.

 

Yikes. That sucks man. I had some bad luck the other day too.

I was heading back to work after my classes Wednesday afternoon (work full time plus college...not fun!) Anyway, I was in the fast lane of a 6 lane highway. There is a concrete partition wall between East bound and west bound traffic, but very little shoulder. Not enough to turn around. So I'm cruising along doing 65-70 there abouts (moderate traffic), w/a car on my right at the same pace. The car in front of me suddenly swurves and what do I see but a dead dog or deer in the middle of the road. It was pretty big size. I couldn't swurve either way, so I had to run it over. Luckily I was only a mile or so from my exit and work was only 1 block from the exit.

Get to work and my temp gauge was on the rise.......I couldn't do anythign w/it till after work. I get the radiator out....the plastic "arm" that the lower radiator hose connects to is cracked.

So yesterday I ordered a new radiator from 1800radiator. Overnight for the Koyo replacement is $115. Well, it was supposed to arrive today at noon. It never came. I called and they said FedEx screwed up and put it on a ground van instead of the overnight van.

AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! So needless to say, I'm furious. But I do get my $20 back from shipping so it will only cost me 95 for the radiator. It's supposed to come tomorrow morning. It better.

Luckily for me, the weather is nice. Colorado weather can change in a heartbeat and it's been 70's all week and through the weekend. My cars sitting in my work parking lot till I can fix her tomorrow.