yea imma do wut he says tomarrow but im still worried about the hook thing...

 

the hook is the return spring for left to center shifter movement, they tend to break a lot on the second gens, most people tend to live with it is as the transmission needs to be removed completely to do the repair.

 

oo man that sux imma just take out the connector like 87 said 2marrow and check my vdi. i guess i dont really need that spring **** then =/ thanx for ur help karack!!

 

Keep us updated!


Good luck....

 

Yeah I just replaced that spring in mine, as the engine and trans are out. It's kinda a pita because you have to make sure the shifter block is in the right position before driving the roll pin out. Then the extension housing of the trans has to come off so you can put the new spring on. BTW that spring was only like 5 bux.

 

ok i just took of the connector. but i never dropped the tranny im trying to see if i can do it that way. now wut do i do now i just poke inside the lil hole with a small/meadium hex key or sumthing similer??

 

i poked the hole but nothing happend am i suppose to feel like a thing going back or a click?? i got in the car and tried going into 3rd 4th 5th and rev and its still jammed.

 

I don't understand connector. I was referring to the roll pin that keeps the block that the bottom of the shifter engages to the shift rod. Is that pin broken. If it is, and you wish to also replace that broken spring, then you MUST remove the transmission. The casing has to come apart as well. Maybe you should post pics so we understand.

 

ok 87 told me to take ou the 5th an rev connector and use a lil skinny rod to push back somthing that i pulled the connector out of . and i kno what you mean the lil block no its no broken. im saying the lil hookthing its the return spring. but the rod isnet broken its fine. ne way my car is still stuck i reverse i tried to push it back but nothing happend

 

anyone??

 

You have to slide the mechanical switch thats inside that port forward.

When you have the car in reverse it slides towards the rear of the car and has a raised part that presses against the elec. switch.

Your situation has the switch stuck like that so you have to force it to slide towards the front of the car.


It will take some time as its not that easy. For the most part keep trying untill you get lucky and slide it forward(towards the nose of the car...)


Poking the port will do squat btw....

 

the car also has to be in neutral i would assume? (well the shifter position anyways)

 

Maybe my ghetto style illustrations will help identify the task at hand.

This is basicaly a top cross sectional view of the inside of the tranny.
You need to insert your tool(whatever you're able to make work....) like so and use the handle as a lever to throw the thing forward.


Here is my illustration of what it should look like when you're done.

This is the 'normal' non-reverse position.

 

lol dam ur helpfull. when i put my pinkey in i its flat like there dosent seem to be a lil gape where u showed in pic #1 look at my pic to show you how it feels or looks. dam its not lettin me but on ur pic #1 theres no gap in it but u never kno my pinky cant feel it. imma try again later on. its cold outside ill keep yall updated. oo and my connector wires the green ones where messed up like if the where cut and put back together with no tape but i had a buddy of mine redo it.

 

pic #1 this is how it feels like. and when i tried pushing it. its very very hard lol!! is it possible for it to move forward instead of back?? view pick #2

 

i hope i can finish soon

 

THANX INFALTABLEPETS, 1987RX7GUY, AND KARACK!!! i got it pushed back now i gotta mount the crossmember and im done. i need to get new shiufter bushings also. but thatnx alot guys!!!

 

can anyone post a pic of this? like where on the trans the sensor hole is? I am about to buy an S5 thats stuck in 2nd, only $500. If this will fix it then awesome!

 

Ok my Transmission is doing the exact same thing. It's stuck in reverse and I can shift it in to first and second. When my shifter is in Neutral it looks like 1987RX7guy first drawing and when it is in 2nd it looks like the 2nd drawing by 1987RX7guy (is that characteristic of this problem?). It doesn't want to budge out of that position. Is it a complicated fix to take it apart and fix it?? I have never worked on a transmission before.

 

This is a buddy posting for DJgeque.

We stripped the tranny down, I wasn't able to do the quick fix that was illustrated above. We took the tail housing off and even though the shift linkage was in neutral, reverse, as expected was engaged. We also noticed that reverse and 5th were very easy to engage/dissengage when compared to the other selector shafts for the remaining gears.

There was no detent ball in the shifter detent for 5th/reverse. We hope this will keep this from happening again. It is likely that someone can lose/forget the shifter detent when rebuilding/taking a part the tranny, so if your selector shaft is loose, that might be one thing to check.

 

Don't be scared of of removing the tranny.. I haven't opened it up, but dropping the tranny was usually no more than a 45 minute job for my buddy and I.. I know I went through 3 used trannies before I got one that worked.. I was getting them for 50 dollars a pop.. so it was no big deal to swap trannies 1 saturday morning.. getting the fluid in was always the test of patience for us.

 

We took the tranny apart in my garage, he's had to pull his tranny a couple of times before as well.

 

hi, can anyone point out where exactly is the reverse switch in these pics? thaks!

 

reverse switch on that "R" box is,, on the last pic,, the one on the left of the box,, with prongs pointing rearwards towards the diff

some examples in FC are 4 wire ,, the pairs are the diagonally opposite wires off the switch
these tell the ECU, 5th gear and reverse conditions

the other switch is the neutral switch

on " M " ( NA boxes ),, both switches look like this compact type , so care must be taken working them out

however,, for you,, the "R" box has the obvious reverse switch

 

oh thanks, i just grabbed these pics off the internet so i know what it would look like when i actually do the job. my car is a '89 NA by the way.