shifter hard to move left and right

[payup]

Ok guys, my clutch blew on me a little while ago. Trans shifted amazing! So took the tranny off the car and replaced the clutch. Now that the car is all back together I hooked up the cables again and now the shifter is really hard to move left and right, moves up and down great like normal. Also to go into 3rd and 5th gear is takes some force, doesnt just slide in like normal...I think that is just a adjustment though. Back to the stiff shifter, i have heard that it might be the cables binding. So i took the cables back off and moved the shifter, and it is like butter the way it was before the clutch blew.

What do you guys think? Is it just a adjustment you think? or something wrong in the transmission? I have bled my clutch many of times also. The pedal feel is great. Trans still shifts into all gears with no grinds or anything just hard to push it into 3rd and 5th and R. Also when i go from 3-4 i have to move the shifter on a angle, if i pull it straight back out of 3rd it goes into 2nd. I have to pull out of 3rd into neutral and move the shifter right to get it into 4th.

I am stumped


THANKS MUCH!

 

[talontd92tsi]

its probably an adjustment issue, but while you are at it. I would pull the cables off of the tranny itself and check to see if the levers on the transmission move smoothly as well, just to see if its a bent shift fork or something.

 

[payup]

where do i adjust? i tried adjusting at the shifter base, it didnt do anything

 

[Blackmitzu]

Sounds like a broken shifter cable, I broke one a while back and it did the same thing. They cant really be adjusted a whole lot anyways.

 

[SolidBoostTSi]

Did you check the Pivot on the actual shifter on the trans? There is a square pivot that gums up over time and results in the shifter not centering itself when you put it in the nuetral position

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if you look closely it is the square white thing at the end of the shifter arm. If that pivot is getting sticky the shifter cables will not reurn to their original position but insted tey will have slack causing the problems you are running into.

goodluck!

Solid

 

[laser92DSM]

I know this is an old thread, but I am experiencing the same problem. I was wondering if anybody has found a solution to this?

 

[Colt4G63 also]

I know this is an old thread, but I am experiencing the same problem. I was wondering if anybody has found a solution to this?

There's a rubber cap on the vertical lever that covers a 12mm nut. In the picture above it's covered by the horizontal lever.

Take that cap and nut off, slide the lever off (don't lose the nylon cube), clean all in there, add lubricant, and put back together.