5th gear intermittently sticky.

[1LE]

This is an odd one. 1-4 and reverse are perfect. 5th is about 50/50 though... Half the time it's normal. The other half the time it kind of "squishes" into gear (requiring extra force and just plain feeling odd). When it squishes into gear, it will be much harder than normal to pull back out of gear too. I've tried before, during, after various turns/stops/accel and can't find a pattern.

Started with this latest clutch replacement. I've run it through the gears and watched the linkage and everything looks just fine up front (in the past I had problems with 2nd gear interfering with the coolant hose). Have not torn apart the center console yet (plan is to do that tomorrow evening), but that seems like a low probability cause anyways.

Anyone had this before and figured it out?

 

[donniekak]

Pop the hood, and watch the trans linkage as someone puts in in and out of fifth. sounds like something hitting the counter weight.

 

[1LE]

Pop the hood, and watch the trans linkage as someone puts in in and out of fifth. sounds like something hitting the counter weight.

No counter weight on this one (cut off). Only thing at all close is the coolant hose and 5th is further away than the other gears (2nd is worst case scenario for that). The "accordion" stuff on the cables does bunch up sometimes, but bunching doesn't seem to correlate with the sticking.

 

[PrimerPLus]

Are these going bad? Maybe not bad enough to see easily but feel it, might be separating where the zip ties are at.

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[1LE]

Are these going bad? Maybe not bad enough to see easily but feel it, might be separating where the zip ties are at.

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I'll take a closer look tomorrow night (hopefully, weather permitting) and compare mine to the picture.

Well, still no clue. Mine looks different, doesn't have the same tie arrangement, but what it does have seems secure. Able to slide the boots freely. Also, nothing snagging in the center console. There's a lot of loose wires there, but they're all safely past the sliding section. Beats me as to what the problem might be. I guess keep driving it until something breaks, then I'll find the problem.