JetMech99

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on my way to work yesterday, i took off from a stop light normaly, shifted into 2nd fine, into 3rd fine, and into 4th just fine. when it came time to stop the car, i found i could not bring it out of 4th gear at all. it remains in 4th, and i have tried everything to get it out.... at speed, car on, car off, clutch in/out nothing is working. i havnt recieved any sign of trouble, no sounds, smells, etc... we even drained the fluid, and it looks damn near brand new. to top things off, the car only has 24,999 miles on it. any clues at all? before i drop $2300 on a new tranny?
btw, the car is a 2002 WS6 w/t-56

thanks for any help guys.

iamsickofitall

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have you tried the hammer yet...lol

is anything physically blocking the stick under the boot?

JetMech99

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lol... oh trust me, the hammer is mighty tempting right now!

no, i tore it apart to look, nothings in there

calhoon

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Search for stuck in 4th. You will have to pull & tear down the trans.

SUTTERERMAN85

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sounds like it could be bent fork, stock one is alum. could be that the shift keys are bent or jammed up some how. could be a lot of things. its going to have to be taken apart to find out whats wrong though.

jerflash

get in the back seat and kick the shifter forward or if that does not work then push the clutch in, rev the car up and dump the clutch while pushin up on the stick...this will shock it loose...it messed up already and you can drive on it fine
this happened to me alot when my tranny started to die but it only happened when i would powershift 4th and it is the shift fork and the slider keys probably


get it fixed soon or you will need a new main shaft like i did

SScam68

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Its not the forks, it's the slider keys.

JetMech99

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is this something even worth rebuilding, cost/reliability wise, or am i better off buying a new tranny? thansk again for all the input guys.

Viplort

Going through the exact same thing with only 32k on mine and driving just as you said. It's running me 2500 for the new one through GM. I would get a beefed up one from else where for cheaper, but GM should have to eat some of this cost for putting such a crappy trans in these things. The full price is 5K, but they are eating half of it. Isn't yours still under warranty???

JetMech99

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negative, the waranty expired april this year. i can get one from D&D transmitions for $2,048 before shipping. but im wondering if i would just be able to have some shop rebuild it or if thats a bad idea.... it would save some $$. thanks for all the help guys.

SOMFormula

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Mine did the same thing, only in 5th gear, had to get a new tranny. Fortunetly mine was under warranty. But yeah, it does suck, mine only had 16K on it when that happened.

Viplort

Have you called the GM customer service line and complain about the quality and the amount of mileage you have on the car and that in 25k that type of problem shouldn't be happening? It's worth a try......I went that route and got them to pay half and maybe you can get them to pay more or all of it minus labor.

pontiac

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mine got sruck in 4th too, the fork bends then over shifttes the slider assembly breaking the week stock keys, get new STEEL fork, billit keys, and replace what gear/sliders you need to.

JetMech99

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that is a good idea.... where did you get the number? worth a shot, im not the type of person to bitch at someone, but it would be worth it to save alot of cash.

Viplort

Me neither, but I cant stand being taken advantage of and from the research I've been doing there should be some kinda recall on these things to have stronger internals. The number I called is 1-800-222-1020 and bascially tell them your problem and your looking for financial assistance with this. They'll probably ask you if you brought it to a GM shop and what they said, etc... from the looks of whats on your car it doesn't look like you have anything that would be a significant power adder and the mileage on your car is super low and they may cover all of it.