L6 Gearbox problem

[Vindicare]

Hi guys,

 

I was driving to work today and when coming up to a corner I down shifted into Second and BANG, it pops out of gear. I was wondering what i could have broken inside the gearbox to cause this as it now does it any time I try to use second while slowing. When applying power it does not pop out of gear. It's a wide ratio gearbox. Also, Is it normal to have about 3 inches of possible movement of the gear stick while in 1st, 2nd, 5th and reverse? Gearbox was rebuilt about 10000 KM ago and im running a turbo'd l24(not a lot of power but nice)

 

Thanks

 

Aaron

[S30TRBO]

You can move the stick 3" when it's in any gear? That sounds like you need a shifter bushing. You shouldn't have that much play.

 

Now the reason it is popping out of gear is something internal. My buddy has a few 5-speed ZX trans that do that. He had second gear replaced and while he was in there all bearings and syncros were inspected and replaced. What did they do exactly when they rebuilt it?

[ezzzzzzz]

Sounds like you chipped a gear tooth. You could pull the drain plug and see if there is any large chunks to indicate this. When you're slowing down the gears run on the coast side which is also where you have likely would have damaged the gear on the downshift.

[Vindicare]

when it was rebuilt all synchros and bearings were replaced. I wasn't really pushing it that hard, was probably about a 2800rpm down shift...while under brakes *sigh* thanks for the help. It only moves a great amount in every gear except the straight up and down gears, so the gears on the left and right of the shift pattern.... in those gears they are lucky to move an inch