5th gear popped out for the first time ever

[Deadly BlaZe]

For the record, yes I've searched and I'm not sure if this is the solution to my problem since my shifter does not seem to move forward and back in 5th: http://www.geocities.com/qwik93awd/Vfaq/shifter.htm

So anyway, I was cruising on the highway in 5th gear going about 75mph. All of a sudden, the shifter popped out of gear (this was while my foot was off the gas). I've never noticed it moving forward and back in gear like that vfaq states so I'm not sure if the problem is the same. It only happened once today. Any ideas?

 

[Lofty]

For the record, yes I've searched and I'm not sure if this is the solution to my problem since my shifter does not seem to move forward and back in 5th: http://www.geocities.com/qwik93awd/Vfaq/shifter.htm

So anyway, I was cruising on the highway in 5th gear going about 75mph. All of a sudden, the shifter popped out of gear (this was while my foot was off the gas). I've never noticed it moving forward and back in gear like that vfaq states so I'm not sure if the problem is the same. Any ideas?

Could it be a bad syncro?
I'm not sure though, because usually bad syncros pop out WHEN you're on the gas.

 

[Deadly BlaZe]

Could it be a bad syncro?
I'm not sure though, because usually bad syncros pop out WHEN you're on the gas.

I was under the assumption that the synchro's job was to get the shifter in the gear and that's it. And 5th gear shifts perfectly too.

 

[Lofty]

I was under the assumption that the synchro's job was to get the shifter in the gear and that's it. And 5th gear shifts perfectly too.

Well, that is true.
But my syncro makes my reverse gear pop out if I give it ANY gas.
It's ridiculous.
Maybe it's just linkage then?

 

[Backinajiffy12]

your throw out bearing could be going out. the same thing happend to me in my mazda 5th gear lead to 3rd which lead to 4th which lead to me blowing the tranny/motor.

 

[Deadly BlaZe]

Oh I just remembered a couple days ago I opened my radiator cap while the car was still hot (like a moron) and hot coolant poured out and I guess it's possible some might have gotten on the shifter linkage. Any possibility that that could have damaged anything?

 

[dsmmaniac12787]

Oh I just remembered a couple days ago I opened my radiator cap while the car was still hot (like a moron) and hot coolant poured out and I guess it's possible some might have gotten on the shifter linkage. Any possibility that that could have damaged anything?

Doubt it

 

[brownfinger]

the synchro doesn't "get it into gear" the synchro basically is the gear. The terms are all bastarded-up. All the gear sets are all enmeshed togeher at all times. That's where the term comes from: All of the gears are "synchronized" The "synchro" is a little sliding collar on the drive shafts which slides back and forth on the shaft between gearsets, selecting which of the gearsets is engaged to the shaft at any given time. The synchros are what you are moving when you select gears with the shifter. In the trans there are two shafts; input and output. Each "gear" is a pair of gears, one on each shaft One of those two gears is permanently engaged to it's shaft, the other spins freely on it's shaft. Untill the synchro engages it to it's shaft. Then that gear is engaged. I bet your synchro is bad, unless your shift lingage is damaged or mis-adjusted.

 

[dsmmaniac12787]

My guess is your synchro. My 1g gsx popped out of 5th gear a couple times, then I couldnt even get it in that gear. Then 3rd went out in the same way and second. Driving with a 1st and 4th only sucks!

 

[b00stedtalon2]

This happened to me as well. I couldn't figure it out so I opened up the trans and sure enough, the large nut that holds down 5'th was loose.