So Tuesday morning was record lows for the area. Headed off to work around 7:15am, jump on the highway and a couple minutes later the car is dropping speed, not accelerating, rpm’s rise, but car no go.
Pulled off to the side, and she just won’t move. It acts like it’s in neutral. I’m thinking the worst but also know it could just be simple. Lucky for me my cell phone stopped working the previous night so had to walk my ass to a near by hotel and use their phone to call the fiance.
Got the car towed home, and that’s when I noticed even when the car is in park, it moves like it’s in neutral, which in a way made me happy since it’s probably nothing major. At the time I didn’t have a lot of time to look at it, but did jack the car up, pulled the belly pan off and noticed the front passenger side axle flange appeared to be sticking out further than it should.
Fast forward to today, had some time after work, and sure enough the axle flange did back out of the front differential. Never heard of that happening before. None of the teeth appeared to have any damage. I took the clip off the flange, bent it out slightly and re-inserted the flange. Not sure what would of caused that to come out though.
Anyhow…stupid flanges. First time in 5+ years the car left me stranded.