CGT won't stay in reverse

[Kneale Brownson]

Bent fork inside the tranny?  Possibly linkage adjustment, but you'd think 
that would show up in the other gears too.


At 03:09 AM 12/04/2000 -0500, Craig D. Niederst wrote:

>Our '86 CGT has had a problem with reverse ever since we purchased it, and
>has gotten progressively worse as of late. When you shift into reverse, and
>let out the clutch, the car pops out of gear. Sometimes it happens
>immediately, other times after a couple seconds. Feathering out the clutch
>helps somewhat, but it still pops out. Trying to hold the gearshift in place
>also does not help. It seems worse when I try to back the car up our
>driveway, which has a decent grade. When it slips out of gear, there is
>usually a loud banging type sound until you push in the clutch (which I
>always do very quickly!). This problem does not occur for any of the forward
>gears, and the tranny generally shifts very smoothly. I find it hard to
>believe the actual reverse gear has gone bad, considering it should be the
>least used gear in the whole tranny. Any ideas on what could be going on
>here? TIA.
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>Craig
>'92 100S (90k)
>'86 CGT (194k)
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