Hey, so not actually my car, but when I was with my buddy (who isn't on here) in his FC, we were cruising around, and when we pulled in, the tranny refuses to go into any gear but 1 and 2, but it won't move, it will struggle then just die as if he just let his foot of the clutch while in gear without giving it any gas. but when it's in neutral and he lets the clutch out, it starts to roll backwards like it's in reverse (we're on a flat surface) any ideas?

 

My best guess would be a bad pilot bearing or the transmission is just toast.

 

i have heard of people taking off the tail housing and found the gears jammed somehow...i've never done it but i bet someone can chime in who has.

 

thanks for the quick response guys, we'll drop it out tonight.

 

My broke trany experience.

I was going to back out of the parking spot. Put it in reverse. I start working the clutch n gas to get oving but the car rolled foward.. OH i missed reverse I must have it in forth. Happens quite often. I thougt nothing of it. Retried reverse. I shift first then reverse cause im used to doing this with garbage trannies. This time I KNOW FOR SURE the shifter was in reverse. BUt the car tried to roll foward again. HAd to push the car out of the parking spot.


The shift linkage broke and my trans was permanetly stuck in 4th or 5th gear. I think it was forth because I drove the car home like that. MAN was it hard riding the clutch to get the car mving.

 

and this is why I love this forum.

 

I had that same thing happen to me in a ford contour I had a few years ago. Ya, it wasn't fun driving like that for 20miles (mostly city driving)

 

yep, ive got a turbo apart like that right now. stuck in 5th, clutch did NOT like the drive home, but i did drive it, surprisingly it was able to pull away from a stop in 5th

 

and i thought taking off in 2nd was hard

 

sounds like the tranmission is stuck in reverse...the older n/a transmissions can do that ****. Putting it in 1 or 2 would mean its trying to go back and forth at the same time(like a atx transbrake but with no torque converter to spin), and it with the clutch disengaged(or disengaging) it will try to stop the engine as well.

 

The tail housing comes off really easily, and the position of the rods will answer your question right away. If you're lucky, you'll be able to just pop it into neutral and put everything back together. My current transmission was shipped to me stuck in 2nd gear and Reverse, which meant the shifter wouldn't go anywhere at all. I popped the rods up and all was well again.

 

Really?
I start from 2nd maybe 80% of the time.

 

On the other hand, I've heard horror stories where the shift forks break the hub for the gear inside the gearbox and the tranny gets stuck in gear. Happened on a friends car. Tried to put it in reverse, went forward because it was stuck in 2nd gear.

 

taken off in 5th, not THAT hard, but the tranny doesn't like it.

Well he has 2 spare trannies sitting around, but he just decided to buy a t2 tranny instead, so we're gonna tear his current one apart and see what happened.

 

t2 on n/a done deal.

 

Ok to original poster, I am going to PM you on how to fix this. I had this exact problem. EXACT problem. I found some threads and get the exact info.

Your car is stuck in reverse cuz the shifter fork is hung up. Happened to me at an intersection.

I could get it into first or second and if I left it in Neutral and let of the clutch it would go back wards.

There is an easy fix without removing ur tranny or tailshaft.

Miatas had the same trouble at times.

All you have to do is loosen the tranny crossmember from the chassis. This will let it sag enough to get to the reverse light sensor out. Kind of a Pita but not too bad. Once you are done with this I attached an allan wrench to a open hex multi tool hanlde you can put all the bits in. I stuck it in the hole and popped it forward and back until I heard a pop and it was loose. Got back in the car and shifter was perfect. I was so frickin happy.

 

^above was me. Bro stayed logged in on this computer. Give me a call Derek 503 516 2222. Ill give you any info you need.

 

how deep in there is the shift fork?

 

update: neutral and gears 1-4 work, just can't get reverse and 5th.

 

on an NA all the case sections come off.

 

ive only been driving standard for about a year now

 

Im telling you dude give me a call 503 516 2222 name is Derek. Did you do the trick I told you to? You might have released the other fork or popped it too far forward.

 

I wasn't there when he was working on it, but I won't have another chance to help him until saturday, I'll call ya then, thanks for the offer/help

 

t2 tranny's work on na?

 

I want to bring back this old post ,considering this happened to me this week . Thnx to Derek and the help of this post it was a cool quick fix, And now I'm driving my baby again .......again I wanna say thnx and to anyone else struggling with this issue use this post is a real help....and if any problems call the number lol......thnx guys....