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white92talontsi

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Nov 12, 2003
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Ok trying to get some opinions as to what may be the problem with this 90awd i bought. I bought the car and was told that 1st and 2nd gear went out. The car is not running right now. What I did was i removed the plugs and used a breaker bar to turn the crank while putting the trans in each gear. When I put it in 1st it feels like there is nothing there. Meaning I dont feel any kind of engagement feedback from the shifter. Turning the crank the car will not move.

I can feel it engage 2nd gear and the car will move with the turn of the crank and same goes for 3-4-5. Im getting ready to try reverse to see if it engages and moves.

Could this me something as simple as the 1-2 fork?

Edit-- Reverse is good

LOL. The guy who had this must have been a dumbass. He told me that he broke 1st and 2nd. Well I just went back out there to check it out and come to find out they only had 1 bolt in the bracket that holds the shift cables. And this allowed the bracket to drop down so the cable didnt pull the lever far enough

I feel so lucky!!!
 
So is the transmission all ok now? Im lost.
Yea its all good now. I posted this trying to see what others said. Right after I posted it I decided to dig into it a little deeper and found the shift cable bracket to be missing a bolt and hanging down causing the cable to not pull the 1-2 fork far enough to even engage 1st gear.

Sorry for the useless thread.


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Got the car together last night. Trans is perfect!

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