jdmomar

Well heres the problem I was driving my car the for about maybe 2 hours, shifting gears fine no grinds or anything. When I pull up to my house I go to park and the shifter wont even go into reverse!! No grinds or noises it just wont go in. I checked the linkage and everything looks good. Every other gear goes in fine and my clutch seems to be fine, so im guessing either I need to drain or add the tranny fluid or get a new tranny!! Help me out has anybody ran inot this before and what did you do??????

Phantastic

did you try putting it into first then into reverse? sometimes my trans does the same thing but when i do that it works fine.

jdmomar

No, i havent tried that I m gonna try it. Anybody else have any ideas too?

bleedblue94

just do what the above poster said... sometimes mine wont go into reverse or 1st and i just need to work it through some gears...

joelmatt89

yeah it has to do with the snycromesh, when the fluid warms up and become thinnner the sncro-mesh do not spin as well since there is more lubrication you probly just noticed it because your fluid may have gotten warmer than your used to from driving longer like that. It isn't a big deal at all but if it is a problem for you though you could try a heaveir weight oil.

Every car is different some cars it's easier to shift into reverse while your still moving forward slowly, others just have dead spots where it won't want to go in just put it into another gear move the car a little and it should go right into reverse. You just have to learn the tricks for your car.

kp

My stock civic tranny does this every morning, I usually just go into first, drive forward a bit and then shift to reverse. It's a pain, but it's only troublesome when my car is cold.

unusual71

when mine is cold it doesn't like reverse either i always just move the shifter to 2nd then pull it hard into reverse and it always engages that way

jdmomar

Im going to try that when i get home but from what I noticed it does it all day, cold or warm. But I havent tried rolling up in first and then slamming reverse.

kp

Yeah I'm no transmission expert but I assume it gets all the gears/synchros moving around so you can engage reverse easier.

bmxmacdaddy

How would added lubrication slow down anything?

Vindicator9000

This. My b16 tranny and my y8 both have always done it occasionally, and that fixes it.

bmxmacdaddy

When you put it into first it slows the clutch/flywheel down enough to slide into gear.