Hope you get it sorted out man... aint nothing worse than hearing noises that shouldn't be there.

 

Best of luck with it. I just went through this and did a little write up on how to replace it. Only the little broken piece got chewed up in the gears in mine. Still turned it into sand. Replaced all the bearings to be safe

Mike

 

Thanks Mike, looking at those pics I see now why it sounded like rocks in there

 

 

Aww, it`s just Halloween noises is all........

 

Hope it's simple and (relatively) cheap. Fingers crossed for ya!

 

I think I'm just going to take it down to my local Indy and let them fix it. I just don't have the spare time or space right now and I don't want to spend a couple hundred dollars on tools I'll never use again.

 

You will spend more at the indy than the tools would cost you but if you don't have the time or space then an indy is the way to go.

Let us know what they find.

 

curiosity got the best of me so I removed the oil tank and the trans top cover. It's the pawl spring that broke but I don't see any other damage so now I'm left wondering where the noise came from.

 

The big thing with a pawl spring breaking is whether or not it went through the gears. I had one fail coming off the freeway while I was downshifting. Same as you, same noise, and a floppy shift lever.

Here's mine . . .

(If you see multiple bits of spring, like below, or bits that look chewed up, that means the spring bits hit the gears. You have to check every tooth of every gear to be sure.)