Shifting.

[94' SHO]

Well i've noticed lately that when driving my car fast then go for a "2nd gear scratch" it wont shift into second eaisly, and whati mean by that is its like wanting to stick and my clutch is all the way in but i'll either miss or have to SLAM it into the hole for some weird reason i've never had this problem before either. i'm talking about even at any speed, either shifting at 2500 or 6500 i cant get it into the hole...lol..not that hole finger but i have no idea whats going on it used to be great shifting wise.

 

[94' SHO]

Anyone??? i also noticed tonight that it's vibrating really bad too well not really bad but it's vibrating hard.

 

[Machspeed]

First of all dont force the car into any gear, thats bad for it. It could be your syncros. Your tranny maybe need a refresh soon. Does it grind when you try to put into the next gear?

<small>[ August 12, 2003, 01:41 AM: Message edited by: FOR SHO ]</small>

 

[sdpatt]

Every time you force the shifter into gear, you are causing the friction material in the synchronizer blocking rings to rapidly match the gear and shaft speeds in the transaxle. This causes wear. After so much wear, the blocking rings can't do their job. Drive it hard and pay the price. Abuse it and be willing to ante up.

 

[94' SHO]

No it doesnt' Grind at all. It's just hard to shift and i've noticed it's only 2nd gear now. How would one go about fixing this?

 

[94' SHO]

What a POS well no when i shift into reverse nthing but grinding....damn and second is harder than **** the shift into (just not syncronized?)

 

[MO-KAN SHO]

If you have a rod shifter you might want to check the bolt that holds the support rod into the tranny housing.

The reason I say this is because my car was hard to shift for a while until one day, I totally lost 2nd, 4th, and reverse... there was just nothing there. Turned out this bolt fell out allowing the support rod to move back instead of the shift rod moving forward.

Now I don't think this will be your problem, if it's only having trouble in 2nd as mine was hard to shift in every gear, but it's easy to check.

Also, in case by some freak of nature this IS your problem, you'll probably find that the bolt in there is a grade 10.9 - 12mm by 1.75 pitch bolt and is about an inch shorter than it really should be so only about 3 threads hold it into the housing. From what I understand after researching my problem, a lot of people had used just threaded rod in there to remedy the problem. That's all fine and dandy, but I found that flexes a LOT compared to the original bolt, so I ordered a grade 10.9 bolt to fit. The bolt I have is 150mm long compared to about 120mm from factory. I have about 8 extras, so if you want one, let me know. After I put mine in, it shifted real nice again, not as vague of a feel as with the threaded rod in there.

This is just my experience with hard shifting, and like I said, I doubt yours is the same problem... but good luck.