Tranny in neutral despite shifter, Car currently broke down on road |
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Tranny in neutral despite shifter, Car currently broke down on road |
86motoman |
Sep 15 2004, 09:37 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 200 Joined: 13-May 04 From: Walla Walla, WA Member No.: 2,064 |
Taking the 914 out for the first time to town. About 2 miles from my house and go for fourth. It's not thier...I wiggle a little more...still not there. I go back to third...nothing...second...first....stopped. I tried reverse, got it. Backed up to a wide place on the road and tried for first again...nothing...went back to reverse...nothing. Car is currently still sitting on the road. I tried to manually go back and turn the tranny shifter piece. It looked to me like it was moving around and the shifter (bushings etc.) is still operating.
'72 Tail shifter 1.7 Is there anyway I can fix it on the road? |
aircooledboy |
Sep 15 2004, 10:24 AM
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Sweet Pea's 1st ride in daddy's "vroom -vroom" Group: Members Posts: 1,672 Joined: 4-February 04 From: Rockford, IL Member No.: 1,629 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
Nope, no cone screws in tail shifters. There are bushings and balls though (huh huh huh, he said balls). Sounds to me like a bushing crumbled, or a ball came off. There is a big pyramid shaped bolt that anchors the front part of the rear shifter bar too. Get under the car and grab the shifter bar and try to move it around. If it is really floppy, it could be that the "pyramid bolt" (I don't know what the hell else to call it) came out of the fire wall. The way you desribe the problem, it could easily be that or a bushing failure. I had a bushing fail with my sideshifter this weekend, and the shifting went from difficult to non-functional in about 5 trips through the gears.
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