87 5KCSQ 1st/2nd gear Kaput

[Huw Powell]

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nice background.  about 24k of it.  please restrain yourself in
future...

> 
> A starnge thing happened on my way home this evening.  I was driving
> at high speed on the express way and when I took the exit to stop at a
> Home Depot store, the car's gearshift suddenly would not engage the
> first and 2nd gears.  I  found that I could force it into these
> gears only by pushing the gear down (like in shifting to reverse).
> This has never happened to me before.  It seems to me like this is a
> problem with the linkage rather than the transimssion itself.

I think you are correct.  Most likely the pivot ball thingie (I'm not
super familiar with the type 44 arrangement so take this with a grain of
salt) is disintegrated and loose, forcing you to do that weird push down
thing to get the rest of the linkage to go where you want.  I'd suggest
an exploratory mission into the console to look for broken parts in that
area.  Dealer can usually get these things once you figure out what you
need.  maybe Blau or TPC can, too, at a better price...

good luck!

-- 
Huw Powell

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