Complete trans loss?, Shifts INTO gears...just doesn't DO anything. Options

[CptTripps]

I'm stumped.

The car pulled into the garage, and now (after welding the flares on) it won't move. The car shifts into gears just fine. It just doesn't move. It sounds like the trans is engaging, but won't move. No sounds at all. (grinding, etc) The clutch hasn't slipped at all recently...no nasty smells or squealing. Just nothing.

I thought it may have been the U-joint bushings...so I swapped them out. Nothing.

I took the cup off and manually put it in gear. Nothing.

I spin one wheel, and the other doesn't move at all. I can't remember if it was like that before, but I'm thinking no.

Could it be as simple as a broken pin somewhere? I got Dr. Evil's notes, and started reading...but the sections that I looked through didn't help much.

The shitty part is that I'm a few weeks away from putting her to bed to start the Subaru conversion. I don't have the time/space/parts to work on that just yet...and don't want to spend time/$ working on something I was going to pull in a month.

So I'm kinda sunk until further notice.

Ideas?

[Dave_Darling]

Can you spin a rear wheel without the half-shaft on that side spinning? If so, you have a bad outer CV joint there.

If the half-shaft does spin, does the output flange on the transmission spin? You'll have to look closer to see that. If not, the inboard CV joint is not connected.

Do those same tests to each rear wheel. If the output flange of the transmission spins in both cases, then you have something going on inside the transmission.

It's not that uncommon for the bolts to back out, hence the people who sell drilled CV bolts and other similar solutions. It may be a simple matter of bolting everything back together again correctly.

--DD