Well, a few days ago one of the parts of my car wore out. It's got 213k miles on it (at least, odo went bad at 204+). I've done lots of work on the car since I got it two years ago and I guess if it had to be something, this isn't the worst thing that could have happened.
Generally when I have had transmission problems in the past with cars I'd take it to a specialist. There's a local guy I trust and whenever I see a diagram of a transmission it just looks like a swiss watch with all those gears and stuff, so I've been intimidated to try anything in there.
With this car I promised myself I'd do all the work on it (since it was purchased as a project anyway) and I've learned to do lots of new stuff from clutch replacement to carpeting to some electrical things to seat re-upholstery and all have been interesting and fun to do (more or less ).
So now down to the work at hand: The other day the stick in my car didn't give me any resistance when I tried to go into the 1-r shift plane. It had previously been really weak when returning from 4-5 to 2-3, so I think it was wearing out and it finally went. There is also a leaf-type spring that I've read usually wears out for the reverse lock-out function as well, so I plan to replace both of these items.
I've had no shifting issues so I don't plan to reinvent the wheel and although some would say it's foolish with this many miles, I don't plan to buy a rebuilt or even rebuild it all myself.
So my notes will be here as I work through it, please feel free to comment if or offer up advice or assistance.
Here's an annotated and slightly cleaned up diagram from the WSM.
Generally when I have had transmission problems in the past with cars I'd take it to a specialist. There's a local guy I trust and whenever I see a diagram of a transmission it just looks like a swiss watch with all those gears and stuff, so I've been intimidated to try anything in there.
With this car I promised myself I'd do all the work on it (since it was purchased as a project anyway) and I've learned to do lots of new stuff from clutch replacement to carpeting to some electrical things to seat re-upholstery and all have been interesting and fun to do (more or less ).
So now down to the work at hand: The other day the stick in my car didn't give me any resistance when I tried to go into the 1-r shift plane. It had previously been really weak when returning from 4-5 to 2-3, so I think it was wearing out and it finally went. There is also a leaf-type spring that I've read usually wears out for the reverse lock-out function as well, so I plan to replace both of these items.
I've had no shifting issues so I don't plan to reinvent the wheel and although some would say it's foolish with this many miles, I don't plan to buy a rebuilt or even rebuild it all myself.
So my notes will be here as I work through it, please feel free to comment if or offer up advice or assistance.
Here's an annotated and slightly cleaned up diagram from the WSM.
Conclusion
Posted 12-05-2008 at 02:27 PM by Mike Frye
Well, last week Adam G. came down and helped me put everything back together.
I ended up doing just the selector spring, the reverse lockout spring and the front seal (plus the mod to change the rear shift coupler from an allen-head set screw to a hex head screw.
The car runs and shifts perfectly, way better than it ever has.
I still have some other issues to deal with, but this one is solved.
I ended up doing just the selector spring, the reverse lockout spring and the front seal (plus the mod to change the rear shift coupler from an allen-head set screw to a hex head screw.
The car runs and shifts perfectly, way better than it ever has.
I still have some other issues to deal with, but this one is solved.
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