In the spirt of CSI or some sort of investigation from the comfort of your computer here is my question .
I bought a 2008 E4 with what I thought had just a broken driveshaft. Put a new driveshaft in it and found out that the transmission is still clunking and or not working.
I fired up the car and placed it in drive and the motor simply spun the transmission (it’s like the car was in neutral ) . The car didn’t move forward at all but you could clearly hear the motor and the gears in the transmission turning ,then I got out and push it a few inches forward and that must have engaged the non broken gears that had teeth on them in the car moved forward.
My question to you is what gears in the transmission do you think our broken.
My hope is that the input shaft is missing some teeth. And the fix will simply be to remove the shaft and drain the transmission install a new input shaft and start over.
No way. It will be the hardest one to repair, The intermediate gear.
Else after you get the dif out, it will be fine, and something unexpected will appear.
What do you guys think happend?
I bought this car and I knew it had a broken passenger side drive shaft. It was not unti I installed the new drive shaft I found out the transmission was bad.
