reverse issue with an 8v tranny

[pilotlars at yahoo.com (Lars Bruchmann)]

maybe the shifting fork is off the idler gear.. or the
gear is stripped.. maybe it only had a mm of gears
left until that ham-fisted mechanic jammed it in
there, removing that precious mm of teeth.  the rest
of the gears, ie, the forward gears, operate on a
totallay different principle than the reverse gear
does.  they are synchronised, the reverse is not..
unless you are driving a high-end audi.  that is why
it grinds when you don't let the input cluster spool
down after starting the engine.  you are forcing a
non-helical cut gear between too also non-helical cut
gears to reverse the direction of the output shaft
connected to the differential.  maybe that helps, to
at least look at what the problem is.. but if you
can't shift it by manually moving the lever, the next
thing may be to remove it, open it up, and have a look
inside.  it's not easy, but it's not impossible
either.  good luck!!!  lars
--- Tonee Northam <pb3vr6@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Go back to the alignment shop and ask the guy who
> took the reverse gear out for her!
> 
> Reverse gears last longer than all the rest unless
> your wife is at the track everyday smoking it off
> the line in reverse. Cathy would know!
>  
> Tonee
> Calimus <calimus@techography.net> wrote:
> On monday my wife took the cabby to the shop for an
> alingment, when the guy
> went to move the car into the bay, my wife said he
> ground the hell outta
> reverse. After that ordreal, she was able to get the
> car into reverse two
> more times thats day. Next day the car wouldn't go
> into reverse at all,
> felt like it was tryin to jam.
> 
> So I got home that night and started having a look,
> found that the main
> shifter bushing was shot, so I replaced it. This
> didn't help. So tonight I
> left the shift rod dissconnected and tried to
> manually put the car into
> reverse by the shift lever arm on the tranny. It
> won't go. I can pull it
> in but it won't pivot to make the shift into
> reverse. All the other gears
> are fine. So what the hell is going on with the damn
> tranny folks? I'm
> pretty much at a loss. Clutch is good, all other
> gears are good. Need some
> advice pretty quick as I'd like to get her car back
> on the road. I don't
> have a spare tranny handy though I'm sure if I had
> to I could source one.
> But I don't see how reverse can be there one time
> and gone the next with no
> indication. Spinning the tires while in gear doesn't
> help or with them out
> of gear.
> 
> WFT, help?
> 
> William
> 
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