Re: [Amc-list] woo woo! (locked T-96!)

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

I don't think the floor shifter can get "crossed up" like the column shifter can. The column shifter jams due to looseness in the column mechanism, which then allows it to engage both levers at the same time, jamming (the shifter, not the trans) because it can't move both tranny levers. Most likley it's that third "dog" I was telling you about! There is a quick fix, but you have to drop the tranny. With the trans out take off the top cover and look for the synchronizer ring. It shouldn't be hard to find, especially with two missing dogs. There will be a space where the dogs were, about 3/16" wide, in the synchronizer body. When you find the third dog just reach down with a pair of needle nose pliers and jerk it out. Now you have a trans with no synchronization at all. As I was told years ago when a friend of my dad's "fixed" mine the same way -- "you'll get used to shifting and stop grinding gears after a bit of driving."  Of course you can drop in your spare and drive four s
 peed style. That is your best bet -- you don't want to grind to much on that Twin-Stick gear set, which is most likely unavailable now. 

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Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:49:19 -0800
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>

After a grueling drive home tonight from Irvine to LA (one 50 - 0 mph panic 
stop, many 10mph crawls) I pulled into the driveway, declutched to drop to 
N to unlock the gate... won't pull from 3 into N! Totally stuck! Got it in 
in 3rd. Let's hope it's the shifter locked up... 3rd seems OK so so it's 
not crossed up. Will tell in the AM. Talk about good timing!

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