hmmm .... tonight I heard the big shriek noise (that fasteddie mentioned) and my transmission "left the building". I was on the road abut 50 miles from home when I find myself with ONLY 4th gear ! No 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th or reverse .... just fourth. I did make it to my Father-in-Laws house .... but I'm pretty sure I smoked the clutch now as well.

So ... it's tranny time. ... jeepdriver ... I'm interested ... I'll PM you within the next few days.

As for the money well spent ... I do really like my Montero. It still needs some stuff done to it ... not to mention the tranny now. But to this point in time it has a completely rebuilt (to factory specs) suspension, brakes, fresh head gasket job and a whole slew of of things ... so I'm not gonna quit now ! I really expected to have all this trouble ... after all my monty is pushing 200k real hard.