No 5th or Reverse, 97 gt. Manual tranny issues Options

[silvercap86]

Hi, I was driving from Arizona to Kentucky and lost 5th gear and reverse when I hit Oklahoma. So I had to drive the rest of the way in 4th lol! When trying to shift into either gear, it feels as if there was never a gear even there feels like I am just dropping it into neutral. I pulled the console and everything is moving properly from there. Manual 2.2 by the way. I then pulled my air intake to take a look at my shift cables to see if one of the plastic fittings had broken, but those seem to function properly also.

Any ideas?

[mgnt232]

I had the exact same problem. Without a good transmission linkage to look at it's kind of hard to explain.
Essentially there is a small metal block (or plastic if it's new) that goes between the linkages, close to the trans. Without it, the linkage will not engage properly to 5th or reverse. I will try to get a diagram here shortly.

EDIT- A lot of the sites I'm trying to look at diagrams on are blocked. find a diagram of the shift linkage and there will be a small block that connects the two, or just post the diagram here and I can point it out. I will say getting this stupid little block on is a bit more work than you would expect lol

This post has been edited by mgnt232: Aug 21, 2014 - 12:28 PM