On Thursday night my wife's 2001 Outback wagon puked (4 cyl, auto). The transmission has a nasty sound coming from it that sounds like a blown ring gear in a RWD car....an repeatable "bang" as if the pinion would ride the ring gear then skip a few teeth and catch again. A few days before it happened she told me of a "burning" smell. I checked it out and nothing appeared obviously bad. Then right before it happened (minutes via phone) she complained about it not shifting into 4th gear. I put it on the rack, had her put the car in gear........bang........bang.......bang.....coming directly from the transmission. I held each wheel individually to see if I could isolate it to a certain axle.......still does it.
I have a short video of it that records the sound very well but I can't post it.
I've been searching around online for any tranny problems that someone would describe sounds like my issue but nothing is coming up.
The car has 210K miles on it. Found a trans at Stoystown Auto for $850 but I'm not thinking I want to drop that kind of coin on this car.
Any ideas?
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