reverse issue with an 8v tranny

[rapieper at yahoo.com (Ron Pieper)]

When you *can* get it into reverse, how does it behave?  Any new noises etc?  

Your description leads me to belive that there's a problem in the linkage, including the forks
inside the tranny.  It's not a classic 020 gearbox failure mode.  

When shifting by hand at the tranny, are you sure you're trying to get reverse?  It's push
inwards, pull towards driver's fender.  Sorry if you know this, but we have to be sure...

Ron

--- Calimus <calimus@techography.net> wrote:

> On monday my wife took the cabby to the shop for an alingment, when the guy
> went to move the car into the bay, my wife said he ground the hell outta
> reverse.  After that ordreal, she was able to get the car into reverse two
> more times thats day.  Next day the car wouldn't go into reverse at all,
> felt like it was tryin to jam.
> 
> So I got home that night and started having a look, found that the main
> shifter bushing was shot, so I replaced it.  This didn't help.  So tonight I
> left the shift rod dissconnected and tried to manually put the car into
> reverse by the shift lever arm on the tranny.  It won't go.  I can pull it
> in but it won't pivot to make the shift into reverse.  All the other gears
> are fine.  So what the hell is going on with the damn tranny folks?  I'm
> pretty much at a loss.  Clutch is good, all other gears are good.  Need some
> advice pretty quick as I'd like to get her car back on the road.  I don't
> have a spare tranny handy though I'm sure if I had to I could source one.
> But I don't see how reverse can be there one time and gone the next with no
> indication.  Spinning the tires while in gear doesn't help or with them out
> of gear.
> 
> WFT, help?
> 
> William
> 
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