Hey y'all,

Happy weekend....yet again I come on here as a subscriber and I swear, this time I will report back with the results of the actions taken. Can't remember the last thing I was asking for help with, think it was a battery alternator issue that seemed to work itself out with the warm weather...starts fine and battery not draining any longer...go figure

NOW for the next thing....recently did the timing belt which was a lot of fun...new seals, new tensioning bar and spring...new OE Volvo water pump installed jointly, etc..

HOWEVER>>>very recently, yesterday to be exact, I was driving her in some bad slow traffic and I've been noticing the stickshift getting kind of warm and the housing underneath it...but yesterday after driving for about an hour, the shifter became EXTREMELY tough to shift in and out of 1st to 2nd and almost impossible to get into reverse...it was also shaking unless I held firm to the frontmost drivers' side corner. Felt like it was pretty close to seizing in one of the gears....

this has never happened before so I was alarmed and scared the thing was going to melt and leave the car immobile.

ALSO...smelled something burning, def smelled like it was the result of what was going on in the transmission or clutch....like a oil burning smell.

WEIRD PART: upon getting somewhere safe and leaving for about a half hour, I started her up again and the stick was much easier to shift...got it in reverse even. And about another 2-3 hours later just started it up and drove back and forth like 10 feet and the shifter felt pretty good again....WIERD!!! I did not drive it home, left it in my work shop to be evaluated further. Did not want to risk it seizing on the drive home (30-45min).

BACKGROUND: Had the car over 10 years, she use to grind quite a bit in 1st and reverse til I had the flywheel and plate and cable replaced with a sachs kit. It has been slipping out of gear every now and then, only when first being engaged into a gear and then theres some grinding that results. Not sure if the M47 has ever been replaced or serviced....dont think so. At one point I tried to check its fluid levels but the fill bolt was so chewed up from previous owner or something, I could not even get a socket on it...heard they might have been threadlocked into the trannie and no way to get them out....not sure.

Will report back later today after getting under her and assessing the situation from underneath. Probably take it for a short drive around the block to to see how it drives....

Thank you for your time