Uhh...bizzare thing occurred while on freeway
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Uhh...bizzare thing occurred while on freeway
So I was entering the freeway and everything was fine until I went into 5th gear. I was already in gear and started accelerating for a few seconds when all of a sudden I just see my rpm shoot up. I was freaked for a second until I realized that for some odd my shifter got kicked out of 5th and back into neutral. Has this happened to anyone else and know why it happened? I know it was fully engaged so no clue what happened and my transmission is fine.
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My shifter bushings are new so it's definitely not that. Basically I shifted into 5th and was accelerating so I know it was engaged, then all of a sudden just my rpm guage started rising quickly and that's when I checked and realized it was no longer in gear. I thought my tranny had just died on me or something so I tried to test if it would go into 5th again and everything was just normal again. How would I go about inspecting the shift linkage?
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there is no Real shift Linkage per say.The shifter is Set up on the tail stock and screwed on to the Trans.
I just think that you didn't engage the stick into 5th hard enough and it Popped out and went into a neutral spot.
NOW if it Popped right out when you hit the gas,then that would be a different Thing.
I just think that you didn't engage the stick into 5th hard enough and it Popped out and went into a neutral spot.
NOW if it Popped right out when you hit the gas,then that would be a different Thing.
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My shifter bushings are new so it's definitely not that. Basically I shifted into 5th and was accelerating so I know it was engaged, then all of a sudden just my rpm guage started rising quickly and that's when I checked and realized it was no longer in gear. I thought my tranny had just died on me or something so I tried to test if it would go into 5th again and everything was just normal again. How would I go about inspecting the shift linkage?
I attached an image from the FSM that shows a little bit, but it doesn't show the selector arm or "control arm" that physically connects to the shifter.
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