Hi guys,
I have a 98 automatic forester and yesterday when I was exiting the highway my front wheels locked and it stopped in the middle of the exit!! Some guy even ran over my emergency triangle!!
Now I have to fix it, im trying to figure out what happened.
A couple of weeks ago I had the suspension serviced and after that a whine from the transmission started, now it just locked.
When I put the car in gear it seems to actuate the gear but it doesnt move one inch (I cant rev the motor freely so I think its in gear and not in Neutral)
If I lift the front wheels off the ground they turn (if I turn the left to the front the right turns to the rear. So it seems that the spiders in the front diff are not broken)
The rear rolls normal without any lock.
My hypothesis is that either the front diff got locked or the center diff is damaged.
the tranny has a badge on top that reads
TZ103ZR1AA - L2
does that mean something?
The foz is a 98 model with 2.0L engine (120hp), auto tranny and sls rear suspension. Its from a saudi market or something.
What transmission can I buy used to replace this one without replacing the rear differential ratio. I have found many on ebay but im worried about the ratio.
thanks for any help i can get
I have a 98 automatic forester and yesterday when I was exiting the highway my front wheels locked and it stopped in the middle of the exit!! Some guy even ran over my emergency triangle!!
Now I have to fix it, im trying to figure out what happened.
A couple of weeks ago I had the suspension serviced and after that a whine from the transmission started, now it just locked.
When I put the car in gear it seems to actuate the gear but it doesnt move one inch (I cant rev the motor freely so I think its in gear and not in Neutral)
If I lift the front wheels off the ground they turn (if I turn the left to the front the right turns to the rear. So it seems that the spiders in the front diff are not broken)
The rear rolls normal without any lock.
My hypothesis is that either the front diff got locked or the center diff is damaged.
the tranny has a badge on top that reads
TZ103ZR1AA - L2
does that mean something?
The foz is a 98 model with 2.0L engine (120hp), auto tranny and sls rear suspension. Its from a saudi market or something.
What transmission can I buy used to replace this one without replacing the rear differential ratio. I have found many on ebay but im worried about the ratio.
thanks for any help i can get