[DeTomaso] Tech Session and ZF question

[Peter Kovacs]

I want to start by thanking Roger and Pam Sharp for hosting yesterdays Tech 
Session. Roger, Jim, Richard, Mike,, Chuck, Brent, Curt, and many others (who 
hopefully won't be offended that I didn't mention them by name) shared their 
knowledge and efforts to preserve and enhance the cars that were there and the 
lives of their owners. The food was hot, the beverages were cold, and the 
weather was comfortably in between. 

Now for the question. Once at Rogers and a few more times back closer to 
home, while backing up in reverse, the car acted like it was thrown in to 
park...which it doesn't have. It stopped so abruptly that the first time it 
happened, I thought I backed in to someone else's Pantera. I asked Mike what I 
hit. He said there was nothing around me. I changed my shorts, pulled forward, 
shifted back into reverse and things worked normally for the next 100 miles or 
so...most of them in forward gears. It acted up again while trying to park at a 
restaurant. When locked up, the clutch can't be released without stalling the 
engine or breaking the trans. This is an assumption because I disengage the 
clutch as soon as it acts up which stops the car. Once I place the car into a 
forward gear, things seem to work fine until it happens again in reverse, but 
not each time.

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what was the problem/solution? The ZF 
was rebuilt about 1500 miles ago.

Thanks in advance for your input.
 
Peter Kovacs
209 345-6708 
209 436-2000 fx