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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:20:59 -0400
From: ma_twain <ma_twainnospamo.com>
Subject: Re: hard to get into gear


Hans Lellelid wrote: > I have a question about the transmission on my '91 900S. I just got > this car recently (and have been avidly reading the newsgroup archives) > and it's my first manual transmission car. I don't have a very good > frame of reference clearly, but overall I would say it takes a lot of > work to get it from one gear into another. I saw Grunff describe the > transmission as "agricultural" which made me laugh; that's a good > description. Shifting from 1st to 2nd should not be hard - follow the other postings with shifter alignment checks. Shifting into 1st from a stop is not easy in the Classic manual transmission. I found the best was to come to a stop and take it out of 1st at the last second. If you take it out of 1st and coast into a stop, then it can be hard to engage. > > But that's just an observation, not really the problem. The problem is > that sometimes it is next to impossible to get it into first or second > from standstill -- and shifting from first to second is always extremely > demanding & always rough. Also I often have to sit in the parking lot > wrestling with it to get it into reverse -- usually shifting into 3rd > and then down into reverse helps, but it could still be a number of > tries before it works. (Actually, the reverse lockout is > broken/disabled on my car so I could leave it in first and pull the keys > out, but my mechanic suggested I use reverse.) Shift into the the non-synchro reverse takes two steps. You fot it right by shifting into 3rd first, then into reverse. The second step to try is what the people who learned on non-synchro transmissions long ago. They called it "double clutching". Depress the clutch , pull the shifter out of gear. Release the clutch and press it in again to move to the next gear. You would do the same to get it into reverse, press and release the clutch several times and then shift into reverse. > > I'm wondering what this problem might be -- and if I should expect > expensive repairs around the corner. Especially for someone without > much shifting experience it can be frustrating to think that you've > gotten it into first only to discover it actually isn't fully in first > when the light turns green. Maybe a Saab 900 wasn't the best choice for > learning to drive manual :) > > Thanks in advance - > > Hans

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