I finally had time to tackle my leaking shift shaft seal, so I jacked the front and rear of the car to do it with the tranny still in the car. I used 8 jackstands, as well as my ramps for the front for safety because I had the bottom of the car over a foot high. I wasn't sure how much angle the tranny was going to have to be to pull the shafts out, so I removed the cooling fan, unbolted the exhaust from the manifolds, loosened the motor mounts, removed the tranny mount bolts, and removed the driveshaft. I could only get one drain bolt out on the torque converter. The other was so tight that I couldn't even get vice grips to budge it while using PB Blaster. I had the hydraulic jack under the tail section of the tranny and had my wife lower it until I was able to pull the shafts out.
I took pics as I removed the different sections, but I didn't take clear enough shots of the actual shift shaft interior linkage parts. It seemed easy enough putting things back together, and I installed a new filter and pan gasket as well. Filled up the tranny with new fluid and ran the motor for some time to warm it up, adding more when it needed it. No leaks!
A few days ago I finally got it back down on the ground (had to replace a control valve to ram hose because of a pinhole leak right in the middle of the rubber). I had the car backed in the garage before all of this, so I rolled the car halfway out of the garage because of the smoke from sitting for a year and the grease/oil that was on the exhaust. Plus, if the tranny had issues, I could push her back in the garage.
With the wheels chocked and the engine warmed up, I tried all of the gears starting with Low. A little gas and I could feel the car want to move forward. D1, D2 worked. Neutral wanted to go forward, and so did Reverse. Aww, man! I worked the shifter in all the gears again and still the same. Park worked, at least.
I'm wondering if I had installed the outer metal tab wrong that is on the shift shaft (Red arrow). Here are a few pics I took.
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I took pics as I removed the different sections, but I didn't take clear enough shots of the actual shift shaft interior linkage parts. It seemed easy enough putting things back together, and I installed a new filter and pan gasket as well. Filled up the tranny with new fluid and ran the motor for some time to warm it up, adding more when it needed it. No leaks!
A few days ago I finally got it back down on the ground (had to replace a control valve to ram hose because of a pinhole leak right in the middle of the rubber). I had the car backed in the garage before all of this, so I rolled the car halfway out of the garage because of the smoke from sitting for a year and the grease/oil that was on the exhaust. Plus, if the tranny had issues, I could push her back in the garage.
With the wheels chocked and the engine warmed up, I tried all of the gears starting with Low. A little gas and I could feel the car want to move forward. D1, D2 worked. Neutral wanted to go forward, and so did Reverse. Aww, man! I worked the shifter in all the gears again and still the same. Park worked, at least.
I'm wondering if I had installed the outer metal tab wrong that is on the shift shaft (Red arrow). Here are a few pics I took.
Thanks
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