5th Gear Transmission Problem
03-27-05, 07:29 PM
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5th Gear Transmission Problem
Alright so I have an S5 N/A... the tranny has been iffy for a while... not sure WHY I say that, I just do 'cause I had a bad feeling about it... no real signs other than hints about its history and a very worn 3rd gear synchro (ggrrrrrrriiiiiiind).
Anyway, today I went out to go driving and found my 5th gear... won't go in. Reverse and all the other gears work fine... it's just fifth... it feels like when you don't have the clutch in and you're trying to push the gears together and it's really hard... EXCEPT that I did it with the clutch in (stopped) and pushed REALLY hard (worried about breaking the shift lever!) and nothing.
I don't know if last night had anything to do with it... I was driving it pretty hard for a while... then drove about 30 minutes on the freeway just cruising in fifth... guessing that cruising in 5th for that long had something to do with it.
Before this, like a week ago, it got STUCK into fifth once... I was on the freeway cruising along and went to downshift and it felt like someone was holding it in gear, it was messed up... but with a good amount of force it finally popped out, and worked fine from there on.
Could something be getting in the way or bending with heat or something?
There are a few threads about this problem... most of them have a million guesses as to what it is... but none of the threads are like mine, most say "I put it in and it acts like it's in neutral". And I am buying a new tranny soon if I can find a good one near here... I'm just asking because if it's something I can try to fix I can hold off on having to swap the whole tranny, buy a bunch of redline fluid... and all that jazz.
Is anyone gonna read this huge post? ;D
--Gary
Anyway, today I went out to go driving and found my 5th gear... won't go in. Reverse and all the other gears work fine... it's just fifth... it feels like when you don't have the clutch in and you're trying to push the gears together and it's really hard... EXCEPT that I did it with the clutch in (stopped) and pushed REALLY hard (worried about breaking the shift lever!) and nothing.
I don't know if last night had anything to do with it... I was driving it pretty hard for a while... then drove about 30 minutes on the freeway just cruising in fifth... guessing that cruising in 5th for that long had something to do with it.
Before this, like a week ago, it got STUCK into fifth once... I was on the freeway cruising along and went to downshift and it felt like someone was holding it in gear, it was messed up... but with a good amount of force it finally popped out, and worked fine from there on.
Could something be getting in the way or bending with heat or something?
There are a few threads about this problem... most of them have a million guesses as to what it is... but none of the threads are like mine, most say "I put it in and it acts like it's in neutral". And I am buying a new tranny soon if I can find a good one near here... I'm just asking because if it's something I can try to fix I can hold off on having to swap the whole tranny, buy a bunch of redline fluid... and all that jazz.
Is anyone gonna read this huge post? ;D
--Gary
03-27-05, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by trochoid
Sounds like a bent shift fork, which I would suspect is from too may missed 3rd gear shifts while racing. Don't ask how I might know that. 
Oh yeeeah. There weren't too many of those last night... but there were a few... and they were pretty hard misshifts (oh is that the rev limiter? DAMNIT.)
I'm gonna take a look at the FSM.
Can I replace a shift fork without taking the tranny completely out?
--Gary
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