[Shotimes] Hmmmm....

[Leigh Smith]

The shifter shouldn't "wander" around. Sounds like a shifter problem to 
me.You might be able to check it out without jacking it up, but that 
would be much easier. Find the spot where the gear linkage goes into the 
tranny.You'll have 2 cables (if cable) or a clevis pin, if a rod type. 
Watch it closely while someone else moves the shifter around, or try and 
move it with your bare hands. The main thumbsized shifting shaft at the 
tranny moves in & out,  and it rotates front / back between even / odd 
gears, regardless of gear shifter.

I understand the clevis pin is known to get loose or break on the rod 
shifters, or the second support rod boss could break off the trans. The 
cable shifters have a c-clip that breaks, I think it is in the console.

Lee


Shylo McKinsey wrote:

>So, last night on the way to pick up a Powerball
>Ticket (up to 165 million btw), I think I blew my
>tranny. Backed out of the driveway, 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
>then shifting into 4th, the stick was able to move all
>over the place, no gear "socket" (don't know what
>they're called) for it to go into. Put it back into
>3rd, tried 4th again. Nothing... Then I seemed to lose
>all the gears. Finally, was able to find a gear, and
>limp home. I think I have 3rd and 4th gear, but I'm
>not sure. Last week I noticed a few spots under the
>tranny. I popped it up and it looked like an axle seal
>had started to seep. But it never left more than a
>coupla spots on the ground, and they were about the
>size of quarters or half-dollar size in diameter. Did
>I lose all the tranny fluid in that short amount of
>time and it blew? Or did My tranny just decide to blow
>regardless of the leak? Or do I have a cable shifter
>and the cable decided stretch/break?
>
>Thanks for any help
>
>Shylo McKinsey
>'91 White MTX
>
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