USAF EP3
07-12-2011, 03:22 PM
I was driving my wife to the doctor's office today and had an issue with the shift linkage. As I was approaching the parking lot in 2nd gear I made a left turn. When I pulled into the lot I put the gearbox back into neutral.
After coasting for a few seconds, I wanted to pull into a spot I tried to put the car into 1st and nothing.
I tried putting it into any of the other 6 gears and there was a SHIT TON of play in the shifter, it felt as if someone cut both shifter cables. This was my immediate thought, but upon closer inspection, both cables were still holding tension on the linkage and the shifter assembly but the actual shifter arm itself had tremendous play.
I reached down to the shifter arm and tried to put the transmission into gear by hand, it felt extremely loose and again, a lot of play with tension only coming from the shifter cables.
Now, the transmission I'm using is a from a 2008 CSX-S which is the Z3 tranny. The previous owner I bought it from swapped the shift linkage from an RSX-S to use in an EP3.
When I get home I'll make a video of how the shifter arm is acting.
At the time it happened, there was no grinding, difficulty with clutch, nothing that was gradually different whatsoever. It literally went from normal to bust as I explained above.
Since there was no noise or indication that something broke, the only guess I got is something came undone/loose. When I get a chance I'm going to have to pull the assembly out of the tranny and figure out what the hell went amiss.
As of right now, car has been towed home and turns over and on just fine, no tranny noise or anything, just stays stuck in neutral and can't go into gear.
After coasting for a few seconds, I wanted to pull into a spot I tried to put the car into 1st and nothing.
I tried putting it into any of the other 6 gears and there was a SHIT TON of play in the shifter, it felt as if someone cut both shifter cables. This was my immediate thought, but upon closer inspection, both cables were still holding tension on the linkage and the shifter assembly but the actual shifter arm itself had tremendous play.
I reached down to the shifter arm and tried to put the transmission into gear by hand, it felt extremely loose and again, a lot of play with tension only coming from the shifter cables.
Now, the transmission I'm using is a from a 2008 CSX-S which is the Z3 tranny. The previous owner I bought it from swapped the shift linkage from an RSX-S to use in an EP3.
When I get home I'll make a video of how the shifter arm is acting.
At the time it happened, there was no grinding, difficulty with clutch, nothing that was gradually different whatsoever. It literally went from normal to bust as I explained above.
Since there was no noise or indication that something broke, the only guess I got is something came undone/loose. When I get a chance I'm going to have to pull the assembly out of the tranny and figure out what the hell went amiss.
As of right now, car has been towed home and turns over and on just fine, no tranny noise or anything, just stays stuck in neutral and can't go into gear.