Before I put my car away for the winter, I was driving to a friends house when shifting into 3rd gear became stiffer than usual. I did not really pay any attention, so I kept driving. Then all of a sudden I could not get it into 1st, 3rd or 5th gear. I could only go into 2nd, 4th and reverse. It almost seem like the linkage was jammed. Even neutral did not feel like neutral. After driving home in 2nd gear I tried one last time to run the shifter in the gears..... all the gears came back. WTF!!! Anyone else ever have this happen to them. I think it is syncro's or linkage inside the tranny. It has a new clutch and flywheel with less than 6,000 miles on it. This is a 1999 JDM B18c Itr block and tranny. I check the linkage and nothing looks out of the ordinary. What do you think it may be?


Modified by sleeprhatch at 11:27 PM 12/17/2003

 

anyone?

 

when's the last time you changed your tranny fluid?

 

1 month before this happening

 

wow, then it must be syncros or something like that. maybe it has something to do with your flywheel and clutch?

 

well bad news.. but yeah I had this happen before I completely threw the tranny out.. it froze on me.. drove decent for a while.. then it froze again and woulnd't come undone.. my best guess is you part of a gear off.. and its running around in there..

 

not a clue
just give the dealership and call and ask? not sure of what else to do

 

anyone else before I rip this thing apart?

 

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He's right. You've likely broken a tooth off one of your gears or the final drive and it's floating around in your tranny getting jammed in between ****.....

Time for a rebuild..... You may want to consider upgrading the final drive, clutch, flywheel, and lsd while you're in there.....

 

thanks 4 the replys

 

could also possibly be this



MT SHIFT ROD-SHIFT HOLDER

bent or loose

either way...fix it soon before it does more damage