Scary incident

I would appreciate suggestions about what happened to my ’92 110 200Tdi the other day.

I had slowed down to about 30 mph to pass some road works, when suddenly something seized up. There was a squeal of tires and in a couple of seconds I was stopped, on the other side of a two lane road, still facing the same direction. There was no noticeable affect on the steering wheel. Luckily there was no oncoming traffic at that moment.

The engine was still running, so I had hit the clutch.

I tried to pull forward but it was still seized up; same going in reverse. I tried low range and got about two feet before it jammed up again.

I asked the road workers to tow me backwards about fifty feet into a layby, which went smoothly with no obvious noises or problems. I was then able to reverse tidily to get out of the traffic. After checking for flat tires, hot brakes, etc. I drove home [only one mile luckily] at low speed.

I am reluctant to drive the vehicle until I have corrected the cause of the seizing.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Someone else on the forum mentioned something that could link to your problem.

It was to do with the diff engadgement problem, could be something to do with warn gears, or something.

Rich

I have heard something similar to this a little while back. I cant remember the exact circumstances that it happened but i think they were fairly similar to yours.

Apparently what had happened was due to wear of sliders on the mainshaft, it had effectively selected two gears at once.

Prehaps could be a similar problem to yours?

Jim

Thanks Rich - does sound a bit similar to my incident.

JonM