No, this doesn't sounds like an o/d problem at all. Sounds like a broken
gearshift mechanism. I had something very similar about 18 months ago -
went to change gear, got a nasty grinding noise and wouldn't go into gear
properly.
With some help from the AA (that's Automobile Associate, not Alcoholics
Anonymous, for all the US listers out there!) managed to somehow bump the
car into 2nd gear (more luck than judgement here!) so I could drive it
home. Turned out there was a broken pin in the gear shifter bits
(technical term). Didn't fancy trying to fix it myself, so I investigated
having it fixed, but recon gearboxes from Kippings are cheap enough that it
actually worked out not much more to get one from them than to have mine
fixed.
Dean
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Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 19:34:56 -0700
From: Flinthoof Ponypal <Flinters@picarefy.com>
Subject: O/D Stuck?
1980 Spitfire, with O/D.
The car came with a lot of the wiring disconnected. Got out the wiring
harness and got it hooked up again. While this car was being worked on,
also bled the clutch cylinder. Everything should be fine, right?
Now the car is stuck in first gear. While we had things out, we also fixed
the backup light switch and verified it was working correctly. But it's
stuck in first gear. We didn't even get a chance to start the car. It
shifts between two positions, but unfortunately it's still stuck in first.
Can't find anything binding.
What possibilities are there that the O/D switch somehow got activated
while we were moving the thing in and out of reverse for testing lights?
Would this lock up the tranny for shifting? Running the engine doesn't
make a difference. No neutral, no anything but first.
Suggestions would be most valued. It's not my car, but a friend who just
got it last week. My 68 Spit is running fine, if a bit rich.
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