FW: [Shotimes] Shifter Wanders

[Ron DeReus]

Found this thread in my saved SHO stuff.  My 95's support rod end broke off
the boss on the tranny on a 1-2 shift last night.  Scared the piss out of
me; and to think, I almost let the AWA drive home last night!  Boy, would I
have read her the riot act if it broke while she was driving.

That rod end sure isn't very heavy where it attaches to the tranny.  Not
sure why it happened now - other than the engine/tranny was flopping around
quite a bit a year ago until I replaced all the mounts, so maybe it was
weak.  Can it be welded, or do I have to page Mr. Al Fitz?

Ron DeReus
95MTX

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Leigh Smith
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:23 PM
To: Shylo McKinsey
Cc: TaurusSHO
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Shifter Wanders


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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