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Old Sep 7, 2005 | 06:38 PM
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well heres the prob. the shifter jus will not move. unless you push HARD and i mean even then once its in netural agian u cant get it to move around freely. it jus stays in one spot. and ideas of what this could be. when it goes in gear it still moves the car. i need help ASAP
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Old Sep 7, 2005 | 07:48 PM
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There are several threads about this on ls2.com I "think" can't remember which board I saw them on.
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Old Sep 7, 2005 | 09:54 PM
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Does it do this in all the gears, or just two, or one?
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Old Sep 7, 2005 | 11:34 PM
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Does it do this in all the gears, or just two, or one?
it does it in all gears like it will just randomly get stuck it seems to like 4th gear the best to get stuck in tho
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Old Sep 8, 2005 | 12:36 AM
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werd.... same problem! Stuck in 4th , IF by some miracle i can get it out of 4th u can't really move it too much.takingthe tranny out tomorrow
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Old Sep 8, 2005 | 02:54 AM
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Thats weird that it will get stuck in all the gears, thats got me stumped. I was originally thinking the 3-4 shift for, or synchros, but then it wouldnt stick in all the gears. I have got no idea, might just have to take it apart and see. When you figure it out, let me know. Good Luck on this one........
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Old Sep 8, 2005 | 08:16 AM
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Have you done something to the Tranny or shifter Lately?
or did it just start doing this.
One time I saw the Roll pin in the Shift Cup come up and rub the under side of the Shifter Housing.
The other things is possibly the 3-4 synchro assmebly has Broken Keys in it and is Jamming up the whole works.
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Old Sep 8, 2005 | 11:22 AM
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It just started doing it recently.
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Just had the same thing happen to my '02 camaro SS (kinda). Going down the highway and was shifting outta fourth and wouldn't come out. Kinda went into the neutral position, but you could here the chatter of the teeth hitting it because it wasn't fully out of gear. couldn't get it into any other gear but forth. Pulled over turned off car and still the same problem even when off wont come outta fourth. I'm thinking the linkage is bad or something, but will find out tomorrow from the shop. Wonder is this is a wide problem on M6 camaros from chevy?
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Old Oct 31, 2005 | 04:53 PM
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Sorry to hear about your problem, mine did the same thing, only exception was third gear also. To the shop it went, turned out to be bent forks which in turn damaged other components. I think this happens to alot of M6's because I actually found out about this problem from a sticky somewhere before I even took it to the shop! Anyhoot, hope it wasn't as expensive as mine! Good luck.
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Old Oct 31, 2005 | 06:57 PM
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Dont scare me, lol........I did bend mess up the third fork on my car with only a few thousand miles on it from a miss shift and had that repaired under warranty. I just hope this one is the linkage and isn't that expensive to fix since my warranty is now up and I dont have the extended one.
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Old Nov 1, 2005 | 06:55 AM
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If they rebuilt your M6 with the same old aluminum fork(likely) it is the same bent fork issue. It will not be cheap to fix if you have been clashing the clutch teeth in 4th( on the input gear). Sticking in gear also is an indication of broken synchro struts. These little parts are also not good to be running through the gears.
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Old Nov 1, 2005 | 08:51 AM
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when i had my new sepc 2 clutch installed, this problem occured about 250 miles into the break-in. somehow, one of the pieces in the center of the pressure plate was bent, and when the clutch ws pressed in, the pressure plate wasnt fully closed or open (whatver happens when the pedal is pressed) bc the one little teeth was bent ad outta wack.
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Old Nov 1, 2005 | 12:06 PM
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Yeah the shop says it could be anywhere from 450 to a over a thousand cause they gotta drop the tranny to look at it. I think I might just have to go and buy an extended warranty on the car and take it to the dealership to work on if that's the case. Maybe just go to a Spec III for the upcoming mods and call it a day?
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Old Nov 1, 2005 | 02:10 PM
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Yea i got mine fixed acctualy and it cost about 1300 but i had mine built up a little so it could handle alot more HP
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Old Nov 1, 2005 | 02:19 PM
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What was the actual problem? What did you end up going with (i.e. Spec II, III, etc)?
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