Shifting problems with a mr2 trans and 7th gen short shifter Options

[supershannon77]

Hey everyone one I hope someone can help me. I recently bought Rjb23's car and I beleive he has the 7th gen short shifter and mr2 tans w/o lsd. The shifter feels much stiffer than othe car but thats not the problem. The shifter will be reall stiff but then it will get really lose and if you go into a gear in will be in a completely different gear...You can be driving and when your in first its like ur in 3rd or you will wan to shift into 3rd but it will be a downshift...this only happens when the shifter gets really lose. The only thing I did was pick up the car in Kentucky and drive it to new jersey which it like a 12 hr drive and havent really driving it much...I am a lil worried becaue when this happens the clucth smokes a lil and you can smell it..Does anyone no what this could be and how bad it is or how hard it is to fix...Thank you. O he said the car also has a stage 2 clutch..Thanks again ~shannon

This post has been edited by supershannon77: Mar 10, 2007 - 2:24 PM

[brianforster]

you realize that the manuals that we swear by, the bgb's, are step by step what the dealer would do? they can get the JDM bgb's, and there are also head tech's that have probably been there for years and have seen a 3sgte before. im not saying your average joe mechanic can work on these (although i think he can as long as you give him the proper information, after all, its still just an internal combustion motor ).

now you cant just drop it off and expect them to fix it but if you give them the rundown they can prolly do it.

there is a reason why they made a career out of being a mechanic and most of us just have it as a hobby. dont think that reading every message board and manual you can get your hands on will give you the upper hand on a professional mechanic (especially one for toyota, who are the people who made the car)

This post has been edited by brianforster: Mar 14, 2007 - 4:37 PM