Friend's tranny gave out on the Interstate!

CManT1914

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My friend (2000 GT w/ T45) and I were heading down to Austin for the day, and as we were passing through Round Rock, I see him drop way back. He calls me up and is like, "exit, exit now!" So I cut several people off (I'm in the far left left lane) and get off the highway and pull into a Pancho's parking lot. I call him back, and he tells me his tranny popped out of gear and won't go back in. So I circle around and pull in front of him on the shoulder. He can't go anywhere, so we go back to the parking lot and park, we go back to his car and push it about an 1/8 mile up the shoulder, and make it halfway up the exit ramp. But it's kind of uphill so we can't get it the rest of the way. So we go back, get my car and a tow strap from some city workers that were nearby and go back and I tow his car into a parking lot on the access road. He couldn't get his tranny into any gear except for 4th. He's been having problems with it lately and the Ford dealership are being ******* about fixing it for him even though it is under warranty. What would cause his tranny to go out? :shrug:
 
the syncros went out on it...same exact thing happened to my buddys 96 cobra with a t 45...almost the identical situation! His was not under warranty though so he bought a new one and i installed it for him free.
 
same thing happened to the T-5 in my 95. just cruising on the highway and all the gears dropped out.

not sure what its called but the whole transmission was shot, 4th gear was the only thing left(my mechanic told me why, but i cant rememeber what the reason was for 4th being left)
 
955.0HO said:
same thing happened to the T-5 in my 95. just cruising on the highway and all the gears dropped out.

not sure what its called but the whole transmission was shot, 4th gear was the only thing left(my mechanic told me why, but i cant rememeber what the reason was for 4th being left)
Hearing stuff like that scares me.

Any reason why this would happen out of the blue?