RE: RS4 33 18SS help!
I just checked my 18SS and thats right. When you hold one wheel and turn the gears on the tranny it turns the other wheels.
With the motor in, the small gear on engine and the big gear on the tranny is your first gear. The other gear on the tranny is your second gear and it free wheels, but it doesn't look like it because the grears on the engine are fixed to each other. Once the engine, gears, and tranny get up to speed, the second gear kicks in and the gears for first gear free wheel
both of the gears in the tranny have one way bearings, so while one is driving, the other free wheels
its confusing untill you know how it works
arn't you glad you have to put it together yourself? Imagine trying to rebuild the tranny if you didn't put it together in the first place??
Continue putting the car together it sounds like your doing everything right!!