Hard Shifting Options

[lsintampa]

75 2.0

I can shift into all gears, but shifting is hard...

What I mean by hard is that I need to put some muscle into getting the car into some of the gears.

1st - grinds just about every time I try to get it in.

2nd - easiest to shift into

3rd - hard to engage

4th - harder to engage than 3rd

5th - hard to engage

Aside from that, there have been times that it was equally hard to get it out of a gear.

New bushings - adjusted shift pattern I think correctly.

Car is new to me and has only been running (motor rebuild recently) maybe 400 miles since the rebuild. I did have the tranny axle seals replaced - but that's about all that's been done to it.

[Cap'n Krusty]

Adjust the clutch before you do anything else. Look at the hard tube for the clutch cable where it joint the flexible tube at the firewall. If the body is cracked there, or the tube has broken free, stop and fix that (as well as the weld at the front of the tube) before doing anything else. There are several threads in the archives that offer discussions on this subject. While you're under there, look at the condition of all 4 motor mounts.

The Cap'n