Keisler shifting problem? Help Me!
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TKO 600 shifting problem? Help Me!
My problem is that I’m locked in fourth gear and my clutch works fine.
Today was going to be the madden voyage day with my new TKO 600. I’ve been waiting to get an appointment at a muffler shop because I couldn’t drive around with just headers and 18 inch collector extensions. So I drove to the muffler shop at 8:00 this morning and from there straight to the gas station and put in 23 gallons of Union 76.
Anyway I don’t even have 15 miles on the transmission when I take an exit off the freeway to go for a mountain road cruise.
I’m rounding the corner and go to shift from 4 to 5th gear and the shifter goes loose on me. So I’m coasting down with my foot in on the clutch. It feels like the shifter is in “N” but it’s really locked in fourth gear. So my brain kicked in and I was trying to figure out how to get home with a tranny locked in fourth gear. I had to blow through a couple of red turn lights and I made it all the way home just timing the lights and lugging it down.
So it’s nothing obvious – The gate moves all over, but it doesn’t come out of 4th. Does anybody have any ideas?
Today was going to be the madden voyage day with my new TKO 600. I’ve been waiting to get an appointment at a muffler shop because I couldn’t drive around with just headers and 18 inch collector extensions. So I drove to the muffler shop at 8:00 this morning and from there straight to the gas station and put in 23 gallons of Union 76.
Anyway I don’t even have 15 miles on the transmission when I take an exit off the freeway to go for a mountain road cruise.
I’m rounding the corner and go to shift from 4 to 5th gear and the shifter goes loose on me. So I’m coasting down with my foot in on the clutch. It feels like the shifter is in “N” but it’s really locked in fourth gear. So my brain kicked in and I was trying to figure out how to get home with a tranny locked in fourth gear. I had to blow through a couple of red turn lights and I made it all the way home just timing the lights and lugging it down.
So it’s nothing obvious – The gate moves all over, but it doesn’t come out of 4th. Does anybody have any ideas?
Last edited by gkull; Jun 4, 2006 at 08:36 AM.
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Sounds like you might have lost the pin for the internal shift rail. There is a socket that the shifter ball inserts into and there is a pin that holds that socket onto the internal shift rail, if it came out the shifter will move through all gears but will not move the rail. Do you have a large enough hole in your trans tunnel to pull the shifter to take a look see?
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Okay - the shifter fits into a socket. On the back drivers side edge there is a hole. Is the pin your talking about a roll pin that I could just go buy? It looks like it's kind of tough to put the pin in while the tranny is in the car.
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Originally Posted by gkull
That 1/8 inch roll pin is right in the directions. It one of the small parts that I was missing.I don't even have one of these transmissions and I recognized the problem immediately from somebody's previous post!
Whatsup with these "roll pins" ??? 
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From: Living in the Hartland
Forgot you have the offset shifter so I am not sure how they have it set up, hopefully they did not leave the one out on the main rail or you will have to pull the trans (or cut a big o hole in the trans tunnel) to get to it 
In the stock configuration the shifter inserts into the socket and the socket is pinned to the main rail
In the stock configuration the shifter inserts into the socket and the socket is pinned to the main rail
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I did it to myself. Two of us working and doing our own things and thinking that the other guy did that step. I've got to drop the cross member to give me enough hand room to install that pin I just bought.
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Originally Posted by CGGorman
It can be done with the crossmember in place. I did it. Used a pair of needle nose pliers and a small ball peen hammer.
Your right i just finished up. I used a small ball peen to get it started then a big jawed water pump pliers to squease it all the way it. putting theconsol back together was the biggest pain.
I got to get out there again and burn up some of the highest priced gas in the US. $3.45 for premium unlead. $80 almost filled it.