tasty danish
SHO Member
ok, so for those who have followed my nightmare, i finally got the thing running, and it runs well. but i'm having some shifting problems.
for those that don't know i pulled my tranny, put in a fidanza, southbend tz clutch, quaife, shimmed the gearset tighter, and shotpeened the gears.
i've bugging beth with this but thought i'd open the floor.
i had an issue with it being funny in 5th and not going into reverse but that was fixed when i realized i left the reverse idler bolt out. it threaded in all the way, normally with no issues.
after i replaced the bolt it still didn't want to shift and i noticed the shifter (rod) was very sloppy, so i replaced it with the rod shifter from my other SHO which is very tight, no play at all. then i would go into reverse but it was difficult.
with the shifter disconnected (note car off) and a drift punch in the shift rod, the tranny shifts very nicely, in to ALL gears, and as long as i'm moving, all the forward gears are BUTTER. once i come to a stop it feels like there is a wall between me and first and after some cussing it'll go, reverse will not go at all anymore. it did for 1 night after i replaced the idler bolt.
given the good shifting with the shifter disconnected it's gotta be the shifter or maybe a clutch/cable/quadrant issue right? i cannot get my quadrant to adjust for the life of me, i've done all the reading. no clicks. either it's broke or i'm doing it wrong.
the shifter that's in there now worked just fine in the sho i took it out of which is my DD. what the **** kind of trick do ya'll think this is playing on me?
for those that don't know i pulled my tranny, put in a fidanza, southbend tz clutch, quaife, shimmed the gearset tighter, and shotpeened the gears.
i've bugging beth with this but thought i'd open the floor.
i had an issue with it being funny in 5th and not going into reverse but that was fixed when i realized i left the reverse idler bolt out. it threaded in all the way, normally with no issues.
after i replaced the bolt it still didn't want to shift and i noticed the shifter (rod) was very sloppy, so i replaced it with the rod shifter from my other SHO which is very tight, no play at all. then i would go into reverse but it was difficult.
with the shifter disconnected (note car off) and a drift punch in the shift rod, the tranny shifts very nicely, in to ALL gears, and as long as i'm moving, all the forward gears are BUTTER. once i come to a stop it feels like there is a wall between me and first and after some cussing it'll go, reverse will not go at all anymore. it did for 1 night after i replaced the idler bolt.
given the good shifting with the shifter disconnected it's gotta be the shifter or maybe a clutch/cable/quadrant issue right? i cannot get my quadrant to adjust for the life of me, i've done all the reading. no clicks. either it's broke or i'm doing it wrong.
the shifter that's in there now worked just fine in the sho i took it out of which is my DD. what the **** kind of trick do ya'll think this is playing on me?
and tearing into it to fix it, kinda sucks, I been driving my parents cars fro a month now.
