DMITTZ

Hey everyone,

So a couple weeks ago I was driving my corvette (88' 4+3) and went to shift from second to third gear and the shifter moved but the trans was stuck in second.

I've broken a shift fork in the trans before so I was concerned about that, although this was not at WOT, just cruising. I did at least manage to get home without any trouble with it in second gear the whole time.

I put off dealing with it for a couple weeks for fear of what I might find and because I was busy.

I figured it was either shift linkage or something internal to the trans.

Anyway I finally jacked the car up and had a look today and I got lucky and it was just a cotter pin/clip thay had fallen out and let one of the shifter rods disconnect. Reconnected it, did a short test drive and all is well

I was sort of expecting I might be having an expensive trans repair/rebuild but thankfully this time it was a free repair, that almost never happens!

ghlkal

Nice ... glad it was an easy fix.

1993C4LT1

Nice! Now put some miles before it gets too cold!

hcbph

Good catch, thanks for sharing. It may help someone else in the future.

DMITTZ

Thanks guys, I'm super glad it was a simple fix.

Now I can move on to do the winter projects I had planned for the car.

Mike Holmen

Congrats on finding the fix quick and easy. I have to fix my heater in my car, we are below freezing now (32 deg's F or 0 C) for extended times. I still want to drive the car, but then again with 10-20cms of snow tomorrow. Might be a distant dream to drive the car again this year.