🚀 go-pugleaf

  I received many responses regrading the harsh (automatic) 
transmission engagement problem I posted sometime ago. Most responses
I received suggest worn-out u-joints, but the u-joints were replaced 
to no avail. Upon careful examination of the drive train, I found out 
that most people were at least partially right - the problem is  
indeed caused by excessive play in the drive train. However, in my  
case the source of play seems to come from BEFORE the transmission output 
shaft (not BETWEEN the transmission output shaft and the drive shaft).
I was able to turn the drive shaft clockwise/counterclockwise
almost a full half inch before hearing a slight click.
There is also slight, probably ignorable, play in the differential as 
another response has predicted. As the problem has turned out
to be much more expensive than I am willing to pay for an old car,
I am most likely going to leave it alone. Thanks again for all of you
who suggest a fix.



Kaihu Chen
chen@uiuc.arpa
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign