Jnitrofish
Veteran Member
My immediate thought [and your thought] is shifter linkage, but not the simple adjustment you are thinking (because I do those on a regular basis). Read on and see if you can figure it out.
If I wasn't already interested in trading my car in for an automatic because of my left knee and ankle causing me pain and discomfort, my 2005.5's tendency to malfunction and smother any enjoyment I get out of it took the way of the shifter the other day.
While driving, with the car warm, with no problems, I approached a red light. When I proceeded to take off from the light (now green), the car didn't want to shift to second, so I tried third and it worked, I tried second again and it didn't want to go in, I tried first (as I am now creeping in traffic on the highway) and it didn't want to grab either. I then put the hazards on and feathered the clutch in third to get off the highway into a parking lot.
Once in the parking lot I stopped and then keeping the clutch to the floor I jammed through every gear that would work (in order of 3rd, 4th, 5th, REVERSE [and it was still reverse]) and then tried second and it roughly went in and first which roughly went in as well. I then drove down the back roads to my home which was only 4 miles away, which the shifting steadily improving along the way 0but still a little rough).
After returning home I called and talked to someone (unrelated), and then decided to drive it again to decide if I needed to go grab my explorer from a family member's house to drive to my final exams (the next day).... It fixed itself. I drove it to finals and back (250 miles) without issue.
When talking to a family member about what had happened I described the evnt as "not exactly confidence inspiring."
The related history with the transmission:
-Fluid change with G55/G70 mix 17.5k miles ago.
-New G60/VR6 Sachs clutch/flywheel kit 10k miles ago.
-F-ing shifter linkage adjustments every 5k miles due to (consistent) difficult shifting, and I found it shifts best if I don't align things properly with the pin....
As an extra note: this transmission has always felt a little weird compared to my old 2006 (favorite car ever, totaled). With some of the gears it feels like you are hooking the shifter (doing a dog leg) as you are going into gear. And its never felt like the gears are exactly one on top of the other (2nd and 4th feel shifted slightly to the right compared to the top gears, i.e R, 1, 3, 5).
I am bamfoozled by this thing to say the least.
Help?
If I wasn't already interested in trading my car in for an automatic because of my left knee and ankle causing me pain and discomfort, my 2005.5's tendency to malfunction and smother any enjoyment I get out of it took the way of the shifter the other day.
While driving, with the car warm, with no problems, I approached a red light. When I proceeded to take off from the light (now green), the car didn't want to shift to second, so I tried third and it worked, I tried second again and it didn't want to go in, I tried first (as I am now creeping in traffic on the highway) and it didn't want to grab either. I then put the hazards on and feathered the clutch in third to get off the highway into a parking lot.
Once in the parking lot I stopped and then keeping the clutch to the floor I jammed through every gear that would work (in order of 3rd, 4th, 5th, REVERSE [and it was still reverse]) and then tried second and it roughly went in and first which roughly went in as well. I then drove down the back roads to my home which was only 4 miles away, which the shifting steadily improving along the way 0but still a little rough).
After returning home I called and talked to someone (unrelated), and then decided to drive it again to decide if I needed to go grab my explorer from a family member's house to drive to my final exams (the next day).... It fixed itself. I drove it to finals and back (250 miles) without issue.
When talking to a family member about what had happened I described the evnt as "not exactly confidence inspiring."
The related history with the transmission:
-Fluid change with G55/G70 mix 17.5k miles ago.
-New G60/VR6 Sachs clutch/flywheel kit 10k miles ago.
-F-ing shifter linkage adjustments every 5k miles due to (consistent) difficult shifting, and I found it shifts best if I don't align things properly with the pin....
As an extra note: this transmission has always felt a little weird compared to my old 2006 (favorite car ever, totaled). With some of the gears it feels like you are hooking the shifter (doing a dog leg) as you are going into gear. And its never felt like the gears are exactly one on top of the other (2nd and 4th feel shifted slightly to the right compared to the top gears, i.e R, 1, 3, 5).
I am bamfoozled by this thing to say the least.
Help?