Look, I have all five forward gears, but I can't even pull the shifter into the reverse slot in the shift pattern. We took the trans back out, but don't know what to look for.

Any input whould be great.

 

is the reverse gear in the reverse fork ?

5/R syncros flipped ?

5/R slider flipped ?

 

I am thinking it is a linkage problem inside the tranny. We have been messing with it for a couple of days now. The thing is, we cannot get it to activate the reverse linkage. There are three fork/levers that can slide either up or down, but whenever we get the selector inside of the reverse fork/lever slot, it always slips back into the fork/lever slot in the center. The center slot being between the other two slots. I can activate all of the gears except for reverse.

There is no possibility that the synchros or sleeves could have been [freak]ed up since we only removed the shafts so that we could remove the old factory carrier and install the new Richmond spool. It's like as if reverse is impossible. I am about to give up and just get another tranny. However, I want to give it a chance since that would run me alot of money that I might could save if I can figure it out.

I need several good and close up pics of the linkage assembly inside of an S1 cable tranny. These pics need to illustrate how things are supposed to look, etc.

I think there has got to be some sort of hope. I'm stumped.

 

can you take a picture of what you have.

the shifter mechanism inside the trans has a "dowl" running through it, make sure it is in place in the "housing" of the mechanism, its got a hole that it fits into.