Hi all,
I have been doing a ej20 swap for some time now.
I got the engine and transmission in the car about 1 month ago.
This week I finally got my shifter and hooked it up.
Well i hooked it up and it's straight up stuck.
When you try to do anything with the shifter it feels frozen.
you can move the shifter to the right but not to the left.
It doesn't feel like it's going in any gears what so ever.
It looks like it's stuck in neutral but feels like it's stuck in first or maybe second.
I have tried the following....
-Bleeding the clutch, It has a brand new clutch and everything. The clutch fork is fine. I have taken off the rubber boot and looked down the hole to make sure everything is engaging. It looks perfect.
-Rotating the engine by hand while another person pumps the clutch and tries to shift. We thought maybe it was stuck in-between gears which it kinda feels like but that didn't work either.
-Hooking up the drive-shaft to the diff. to see if it spins the drive-shaft and diff. My thinking was that if these spin than it's definitely in some gear. When the engine is turned by hand it spins the front wheels and spins the drive-shaft which tries to spin the diff. I'm still not sure weather or not this proves it's in gear. all 4's are up in the air so I feel like there could be a small amount of resistance on the transmission which turns the front wheels and drive-shaft.
-Have tried putting some fluid in. That did nothing.
When I got the transmission i drained it or what was left of it.
When i drained it there was a small amount of metal on the plug no big chunks or anything just looked like normal wear to me.
-I quadruple checked to make sure the shifter is hooked up properly.
I'm 99.99% sure it is. It even looks like it is, It's attemping to do something but there is just some sort of resistance I just cant figure out where it's coming from.
-I have checked the transmission for signs of abuse or dropping it in shipping. It looks 100% fine, not a scratch on it. It's made of aluminum so it's pretty soft and would have some signs of abuse if that was the case.
The car is not running yet so i cannot turn it on to truly see if it's in gear.
It feels like there is some sort of internal resistance inside the transmission but at the same time it seems impossible for it to be completely locked up. I could understand if one of the shifter forks was broken or something and it wouldn't go into 1 set of gears but it wont do a damn thing. I've turned the input shaft enough where it seems anything jammed would have definitely come unjammed. Or at least lock it up completely and not turn the wheels. I'm so confused!
Any help is appreciated!
I have been doing a ej20 swap for some time now.
I got the engine and transmission in the car about 1 month ago.
This week I finally got my shifter and hooked it up.
Well i hooked it up and it's straight up stuck.
When you try to do anything with the shifter it feels frozen.
you can move the shifter to the right but not to the left.
It doesn't feel like it's going in any gears what so ever.
It looks like it's stuck in neutral but feels like it's stuck in first or maybe second.
I have tried the following....
-Bleeding the clutch, It has a brand new clutch and everything. The clutch fork is fine. I have taken off the rubber boot and looked down the hole to make sure everything is engaging. It looks perfect.
-Rotating the engine by hand while another person pumps the clutch and tries to shift. We thought maybe it was stuck in-between gears which it kinda feels like but that didn't work either.
-Hooking up the drive-shaft to the diff. to see if it spins the drive-shaft and diff. My thinking was that if these spin than it's definitely in some gear. When the engine is turned by hand it spins the front wheels and spins the drive-shaft which tries to spin the diff. I'm still not sure weather or not this proves it's in gear. all 4's are up in the air so I feel like there could be a small amount of resistance on the transmission which turns the front wheels and drive-shaft.
-Have tried putting some fluid in. That did nothing.
When I got the transmission i drained it or what was left of it.
When i drained it there was a small amount of metal on the plug no big chunks or anything just looked like normal wear to me.
-I quadruple checked to make sure the shifter is hooked up properly.
I'm 99.99% sure it is. It even looks like it is, It's attemping to do something but there is just some sort of resistance I just cant figure out where it's coming from.
-I have checked the transmission for signs of abuse or dropping it in shipping. It looks 100% fine, not a scratch on it. It's made of aluminum so it's pretty soft and would have some signs of abuse if that was the case.
The car is not running yet so i cannot turn it on to truly see if it's in gear.
It feels like there is some sort of internal resistance inside the transmission but at the same time it seems impossible for it to be completely locked up. I could understand if one of the shifter forks was broken or something and it wouldn't go into 1 set of gears but it wont do a damn thing. I've turned the input shaft enough where it seems anything jammed would have definitely come unjammed. Or at least lock it up completely and not turn the wheels. I'm so confused!
Any help is appreciated!