[DeTomaso] 2nd gear

[John Taphorn]

Steve

Your memory serves you well.  However, I would be surprised to see one of 
those springs broken.

Chris - Any chance that the shift linkage is being struck by the rotating 
halfshaft and being helped out of gear?  I'd look there first.

JT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Hawkins" <shawkins6 at houston.rr.com>
To: "'Christopher Kimball'" <chrisvkimball at msn.com>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] 2nd gear


> If I remember correctly from when mine was appart there are some small
> cylinders that move as gears are changed and they hold the gears in place.
> Maybe John Taphorn will jump in and correct me.
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] 
> On
> Behalf Of Christopher Kimball
> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:00 PM
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] 2nd gear
>
>
> I'm home for a day in between traveling and I noticed no one has responded
> to a question I asked, so maybe it never made it to the forum.  Here it 
> is:
>
> Occasionally, my car will pop out of second gear and go into neutral for 
> no
> apparent reason.  Reverse and fifth work fine, and the shift lever isn't
> hitting the console before it gets fully into gear.
>
> When in neutral the shift lever moves freely so I don't think it has the
> extra detent some have mentioned in other forum notes.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
>
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