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I have some strange symptons from my manual transmission on my 97 CSE, which was a recon exchange unit from DCA here in the UK, and is still under guarantee.
I'm wondering (it may be wishful thinking, because I don't really want to the whole swap again) if the problems might be related to the shift linkage.
The symptoms are:
* Not a smooth action changing from one gear to another sometimes.
* Going in to 5th gear, it sometimes crunches a bit, like a bad syncro.
* Changing up from first, usually after pulling away, as I take it out of first gear there is a noise and a sensation like releasing something that is under pressure - I feel a resistance and then it almost pops out, with a clonk noise. It also does this coming out of second sometimes.
The clutch seems fine.
How critical is the precision of the adjustment of the linkage? I did it the recommended way when I changed the box, but when I checked it, it seemed to be a tiny bit off - in other words, I had to put a bit of pressure on the stick to get the screwdriver to drop down the locating hole. Strangely, after doing that - even though I didn't slacken off the linkage - the gear change for about 1/2 mile felt as smooth as when I first put the box in, when it was lovely.
The gear stick feels quite loose - you can move it about 2cm left to right, and about 1 cm front to back with no resistance at all.
Could the problem be in the linkage somewhere? Love to hear some thoughts on this.
posted by 80.5.89...
, Fri, 8 Oct 2004 08:14:51
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