ok I got to work this morning and put my 99 cobra in reverse and now it wont come out. I can press the clutch all the way to the floor and it engages but the stick will just not move out of reverse. does anyone have a clue to what might be wrong and how much it might cost to fix?
I had the same thing happen to me once at work in my 03 v-6.
You weren’t by any chance revving it at 5k and then accidentally dropped the clutch?
It was my attempt at a Knight Rider skid, and I grenaded the transmission. A moment in stupidity, your post reminded me of.
Sometimes i cant get it into reverse, or even 1st or 2nd for that matter, and what i do is i let the car roll fowards or backwards a bit (either due to a hill or engaging the clutch) then usually it pulls out of gear. (or into gear)
Mike
You need to push you car forward a bit and it will come out of gear. I think you car still is has a t-45 in it. If it does there is a ford service bulletin about the reverse fork. they have three different forks. Sounds like you need a different one. They would have to pull the transmission and take the back half off to do so.
If it's not coming out of reverse, don't force it...you probably have a bent/damaged fork.
I just had a Viper T56 put in....at the track it locked into 4th gear. Only 600 miles or so on the "bullet proof" tranny. It's being fixed by D&D for n/c....they had a batch of tranny's go out that weren't assembled correctly.
Cost....not too much. Might need a rebiuld which is around $400 or so I believe. If it's just a damaged shift fork....not nearly that much.
I tried the pushing it foward and that did not work. I didnt force it cause I didnt want to bend the shifter or do any further damage. no I was just backing up normally and it just got stuck. I would take it to ford but I worry that they will not do any work on it since I have long tubes and that would complicate the removal of the trans.
Off topic a little, but my t45 always pops out of second. And if I'm holding it in lightly, it'll grind like a mofo, but if I hold it in hard, it stays. Shift fork I believe. How much to fix?
cold snake,
that sounds like a sincro is bad mor than the fork. i am not that experianced but my friends z 28 did the same thing. you had to hold 2nd gear in tight or it would pop out.