Tranny problems {no inuendo please} lol

nobody?

will it shift into 1st with the car off?

not at all it like something internal is blocking the shifter from going that far left, i cant even get the shifter farenough left to get under 1st

And its not the linkage either, is there a gate on the top of the tranny that would maybe have stopped it?

Sorry to hear of the transmission prob! Given there was not a lot of grinding sound when it jammed, hopefully it is just stuck and not a broken shaft etc.
How to get it loose I don't know, but, can you get reverse and it doesn't grind etc,? is it on the same shaft as 1st?

The only tranny shop I tried (years ago successfully for my dodge colt iceracer [mitsubishi designed] 4x2 speed tranny) in Edmonton was: Fast-O-Matic, 2 bros. @ 95 street. Small outfit, and they stood behind their work.

Just a thought but, you could check for any types of shiny bits cropping up in drained transmission fluid to see what type of damage might be there by what comes out. Shine a light when draining and check the drain pan close.

yeah 3rd 4th 5th and reverse are all good

took the other engine out of my parts car yesterday, thanks for the help Bill,mike,shane,ryan! positively couldn't have done it without you guys in one day! so im gonna swap engines and trannies and tear the other one down for build up!

Sounds like one of your detent balls in you shift selector is jammed or something stupid like that. If you aren't grinding gears and nothing broke then I'm putting my money on that.

lol i use to change my traany because of this shit it's hapen the same to me drop your transmission oil and chek for steel it the ouil there you will find your answer

I'm going to do a trany build this winter aswell we should share info

I have had a shifter cable break and cause similar issues, not sure of the setup on our cars but it may be worth a looksie.

Sorry to bring up an old forum post but i had this problem too. wouldnt even budge over into first or second. did you ever figure out what it was when you pulled it all apart? or was it just the oil like the frenchman said?

I swapped in a new trans and never got around to opening the old one... nothing broken it drove in third but wouldn't go into neutral .. weirdest thing... so maybe this winter I actually will open that box up and have a peek

Same thing happened to me. Missed shift into 3rd, no more 1st or 2nd. Took it apart, no obvious problems, other than it was stuck. Put it all back together, and it shifts fine. If it wont even go into the gate, the selector mechanism has fallen out of place. This probably means that the detent balls, are letting the selector fork shaft move out of position. Take it apart and check everything, and let us know.

I'm having problems now with reverse. It gets totally stuck at random. If I accelerate up to about 30 I can shift out, but otherwise its jammed in. Someone over in the UK had this problem as well and they said it was a worn spring, I have not heard back which one yet.

Lynx I hope mine had the same issue! that seems really simple (and cheap)

Stuck in revers huh thats just crazy  ps 30 KM/H in reverse has gotta be fun,

Just cost me time. These trans are weird. All kinds of bad problems it seems.

So tempted to get a par gear set, and get a shop to rebuild the trans, and weld the case. Too bad it would double the value of my car.

Agreed,,, par ppg there all hella expensive...

lol frenchman sorry :P well what i was saying is that it's not the oil....it's your transmission but if it is broken from the interior it will have peace of aluminum or steal in your oil mine use to have like fingernail peace... and it was the same problem as yours so chek the linkage,if it's not that change the transmission.

and yes you can unlock the 1,2 gear but 1 week later it will do the same probleme so i recomand you to change your transmission even if im french i know what i'm talking about lol

Mines alright for now, but are there any signs that it was going to fail soon, or were the lock-ups very sudden and unexpected?
Would using something like redline shockproof gear oil with the plastic beads in the fluid help to prevent anything? I ran the shockproof stuff years ago and shifts were cushioned a bit.

when i was driving in first gear, i heard like gear noice verry loud like 1 week before it happen and for my second transmission i used syncroshiftII oil and it was amazing

sorry to bring an old topic back, but it seems that our GTi-R have the same flaws :( i was driving at 60km/h in 4th gear, stopped at a red light, and couldnt shift 1st or 2nd gear, like if something was stuck inside the tranny blocking me from shifting 1st and 2nd..

im really pissed it was the first time i drove the car in 3 weeks and did about 15 kms before it happend and i didnt even floor it my pulsar is almost stock.... wtf !!!!!

that's what happened to me. I couldn't figure it out. and i literally took the transmission apart, and put it back together, and it worked again....

rough , mine doesn't reverse ... hopefully after i pull it out or drain it , it'll back up ... this seems like a common problem makes me less worried

I killed mine at the track. I was too concentrated on the launch and for got to put the e-Brake down...when I got to the finish I smelt burning..
I panicked and my RHD instincts were still a little dull,, I miss down shifted to stop and no more neutral...

Ironically I still beat the guy with a 13.7 et and a 1.7 sixty foot... so Im gussing with the e-brake down I woulda got high 12's,,, BOOOOOOOO

I want so badly to find a way to stuff a maxima or spec-v hlsd trans into it. Custom bellhousing is pretty much a given.... just wondering if it's even possible.

as long as the front and rear diffs have the same final drive you can change to centre diff right?

driving home tonight mine wouldn't go into 3rd,4th or 5th. i have ist 2nd and reverse. haven't taken it to get looked at yet. anyone else with that situation

Thats weird.  usually when you have problems it is with one specific gate, or gear.  5th shares the reverse gate...so I'm not sure what's up there.

And with mine i have to hold the shifter in gear while driving. it keeps wanting to pop out of gear.  any ideas?

wow.  that sounds horrible lol.  Not a clue, something went boom.

I have had my transmission apart to repair the 5th to reverse lock out. the problem is in the transmission because the linkage consists of a shaft into the transmission and that is it. there are detents inside the transmission that prevent you from shifting into two gears at the same time, that my be the issue. the exact cause of the problem would be pretty difficult to tell with out disassembly of the transmission. my black gtir which is parked now had a simular problem as well. i suspected the detends or there is a selection joint in the transmission where your gear shifter moves to the pair of syncros it wants to move and the problem could be there. all internal issues unfortunatly. sorry man.

CKYJO your syncros are shot. thats what is incharge of holding the locking collar in place. sorry to hear about the transmission problems. i never repaired mine because the car was too rusted i ended just buying another gtir.