tranny problems: cant find 1st, and 5th? wtf?
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tranny problems: cant find 1st, and 5th? wtf?
ive got a 87 Tii, and im haveing tranny problems. i just pulled my tranny to replace the pivot ball for the clutch fork. and while i was there, i replaced the neutral return spring. anyways, i put the car back together. throw about a quart of tranny fluid in there, because i didnt empty the tranny completely when i dropped the tranny, and see how it goes. get out of my driveway, and i suddenly cant go into first anymore. argh. then i find out, i cant go into 5th either. but 2nd, 3rd, and 4th work perfect. about 10 min of driveing later, i take a few corners in 3rd, and 4th, and i can go into 1st and 5th again. about every 5 min, it wont go into 1st/5th, and then it will suddenley be able to go into them.
when i try to go into 1st or 5th it will feel like the shifter is hitting a gate. and has gone as far as it can go, but just wont go far enough to make it into the gears. and when i try to disengage the clutch with it in 1st or 5th, it will pop the shifter back or if i try to hold it into the gears with alot of pressure it will just grind.
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-Daniel
when i try to go into 1st or 5th it will feel like the shifter is hitting a gate. and has gone as far as it can go, but just wont go far enough to make it into the gears. and when i try to disengage the clutch with it in 1st or 5th, it will pop the shifter back or if i try to hold it into the gears with alot of pressure it will just grind.
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-Daniel
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i duno know man i just say make sure you got the oil topped off and that nothing got missaligned when you put it back together but thats fairly obvious. maybe a tranny guru will wiegh in. good luck tho.
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the thing is, nothing that i know of could be misaligned from the tranny install, that i know of. this is the 3rd time ive pulled my tranny in the past 3 months.
-Daniel
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my friends TII was dead(battery) so we tried to push start it....while the car is moving, i wasnt able to put the car in first....no matter how hard i tried. so i had to do it in second...which didnt work but anywho the car had to be stopped before i could get the car in first or the car's transmission is warm.
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does the shifter go into the 1st and 5th gear slots? if it does and doent engage it may be that your 1st & 5th shift forks may be broken. this is what happened to my buddies 1stgen dsm.
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sometimes when my tranny is really cold i can't get it into 1st. i just work it back and forth from second to first until it goes in. mine was rebuilt about 2 months ago too. new syncro's and all.
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Spring.
It's the neutral return spring, it's either been misinstalled or has broken (as mine did about 300 miles after I replaced mine.). If you force it, it will go into gear, as well as just fiddling with it and wiggling while pushing.
-David Guy
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