T-5z slipping out of 2nd. Bent shifter fork?

MEDIK418 · 03-06-2003, 01:39 AM

You can fix it yourself if you are any kind of handy with a wrench. Hanlon and a couple of others sell rebuild kits and videos that can teach a monkey to rebuild a T5. I'm living proof. I'm on my second rebuild this month (two trannys, not the same one twice)and both did the same thing you describe to one degree or another. What I noticed commmon to both was just plain ole worn bearings. True, there were other problems but I think the popping out of gear was because of worn bearings letting everything move around so much that a lot of the travel the shift forks were supposed to make was going into moving the rotating assemblies back and forth as well as laterally.
FYI. . .you cannot bend a shift fork, they break. Also, if it's popping out of fifth, you're probably going to have big problems in the near future. Fifth gear is the weakest looking of all the gears in there and while it doesn't actually tie into reverse, both are actuated by the same levers. . has nothig to do with second gear. first and second use the same synchro as do third and fourth. Buy the video and see if it's something you want to tackle. It's 16 or 17 bucks and well worth it

03-06-2003, 01:39 AM	#1
MEDIK418 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 1999 Location: Amarillo, Texas, USA Posts: 780	You can fix it yourself if you are any kind of handy with a wrench. Hanlon and a couple of others sell rebuild kits and videos that can teach a monkey to rebuild a T5. I'm living proof. I'm on my second rebuild this month (two trannys, not the same one twice)and both did the same thing you describe to one degree or another. What I noticed commmon to both was just plain ole worn bearings. True, there were other problems but I think the popping out of gear was because of worn bearings letting everything move around so much that a lot of the travel the shift forks were supposed to make was going into moving the rotating assemblies back and forth as well as laterally. FYI. . .you cannot bend a shift fork, they break. Also, if it's popping out of fifth, you're probably going to have big problems in the near future. Fifth gear is the weakest looking of all the gears in there and while it doesn't actually tie into reverse, both are actuated by the same levers. . has nothig to do with second gear. first and second use the same synchro as do third and fourth. Buy the video and see if it's something you want to tackle. It's 16 or 17 bucks and well worth it __________________ 1986 four-eyed LX coupe, 358 Cleveland, Tremec TKO600/centerforce clutch, dish cut Probe forged pistons, comp cams hyd.roller cam, .579/.588@224/230, Edel.performer, 670 holley street avenger, CPR custom built long tubes, ported and polished 4bbl heads, manley valves, beehive springs, MSD peo-billet dist/MSD6AL, fluidamper, 5 lug conv. with 17x8 bullits there's more but it's still not finished yet. Oh, and the oldest boy is turning his 89 GT into a FFR cobra this next summer.

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