Anyone Experience this??, Manual Tranny Shifting Problem Options

[Fastbird]

This is probably going to be for the forced induction guys more than anyone, but here's my issue:

I CANNOT hit a hard shift into 2nd at WOT in the car. Simply put, the tranny refuses to go into 2nd gear, and third gear offers quite a bit of resistance at high throttle inputs also. When driving easily however, it shifts fine into any gear I want it to.

Call me crazy but I've always had trouble shifting cable actuated manual transmission under heavy loads. What I think is happening is that my old/weak motor mounts are allowing enough movement in the motor that enough of a shift happens to throw off the sync of the cables to the shifter. What I'm trying to do is get some verification on this.

Thoughts? I must have tried 4-5 times last night on the way home from work to bang a high RPM WOT 1-2 shift and it wouldn't happen.

[easternpiro1]

I havent changed anything, they are the cables that i got from prodigy 515 while my car was in the shop. he needed the d 153 cables i had and i needed the GT cables he had. car was fine until recently.


I recently noticed that 2nd and 4th are the ones giving me trouble while i am accelerating ESPECIALLY 2ND. they only respond when i am going slow. and in first sometimes i have to force it in. after i have been driving a while i have to just skip 2nd gear because it wont go in. Doc told me to take the cables off and manually shift the tranny with my hand to determine if it is the cables or the tranny before i go trying to put in some syncromesh lube. (i dont know how to do this, but imma learn though! )

Hmmm mushy?? like the shifter isnt entering the shift gate??? Hey same problem as me

and the shift gate? you mean the plastic piece that the actual shifter is connected to right? right where the two cables are held in place by the white plastic and a u shaped metal washer? i saw that one cable was getting past that, so i pushed the u washer in but it continued ugh if its not one thing its another lol.