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.

[808celica]

from inside the car looking at the shifter the left cable(closest to your leg) should just control the left to right movement of the stick and the cable that is on the right(passenger side) controls the actual selection of 1-2-3-4-5- R.

Yups Matt we have the same problem with the same symptoms.

Piro you'll notice if you drive more you will lose ALL GEARS!!! and you wont be able to get out of it it happened to me while slowing down for a speed bump, i had to pull on the side and force the gear selector arm in the bay into neutral. Hahaha and the other time at the light, i had to launch in 3rd gear T___T


This post has been edited by 808celica: Jul 17, 2009 - 8:25 PM