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

["Stu Fitchett" <amckiwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My floor shifter caused me to shift into two gears at once

That was one week after spending $1,000 getting the box rebuilt in my 64
Classic

I cried at the time

The fault was with the shifter and the detents / lockouts got messed up

The best ever box I had in my Classic a friend built for me from all my
broken boxes this lasted about a year

I spent over $4,000 on Rambler gearboxes before I could no longer get parts
(pre internet)

I was a struggling student over this period as well

The Toyota 5 speed was the best ever thing I have done to my car should have
done it years earlier

Of course I was young and had put the 232 into my Classic by then and was
never easy on my car.

I am sure being older and in a lighter car I could live with that gearbox
now

I got to the point where I could drop the gearbox out in 45 minutes after
pushing it onto the garage and all the sockets & spanners I wore out were
the ones that fitted the gear box

Ahh the memories

Stu


-----Original Message-----
From: amc-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amc-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Frank Swygert
Sent: Saturday, 10 November 2007 3:24 AM
To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Tom Jennings
Subject: Re: [Amc-list] woo woo! (locked T-96!)

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. 

-------------------
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!

-- 
Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Motors Cars" 
Magazine (AMC)
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