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shifterpilot5.0

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Ok, I just put in another T5 this time the freekin reverse will not work-it just wont go in. Its ok i have a few others with reverse but i just wonder why its doing this? i wasnt thrashing that hard on it.Any body know what causes this?
 

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made me double post
 

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t5 synchro's are junk.............sad to say, we have a bunch of t5's that have the 2nd and 3rd gears blown out of em
 
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Have u tried throwing it in other gears first then reverse? if that dont work ur syncros are messed and time for a rebuild.
 

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Most T-5's are not syncro'd in reverse. Even if it was a syncro, it would still go in, just grind. Does it just grind and not go in, or does it just refuse to even engauge it at all?

Nick
 
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It just wont go in at all- I tried to go from other gears to reverse but nothin.
 

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did you have the cover off at all? getting the forks on all the sliders is sometimes pretty difficult sometimes and it just might not be sitting where it should be..
 
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You have probably bent a shift fork. I'm trying to remember which gears use the same shift fork. Alot of times, when you lose reverse, you will also lose another gear (like 1st, etc). When I bent a shift fork in my T-45 (1996 GT) I lost reverse and 1st at the same time. It just wouldn't go into gear.
 
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I didnt have the cover off, but there is one thing i left out. A year ago when i bought this tranny to have a spair, I know i shifted through all the gears even reverse. Im 100% sure it had them all or i would have not bought it.
It has just been sitting in my shop with a tag i put on it that says broken so my buddys would not try to snag it . May be if i drive it around a little more it might work? What do you think.
 
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