Thread: 99 GST Manual transmission problem HELP

The adjusters are just before the shifter assembly..

Pop off your shift knob then remove tthe shift boot... thats the way to access them..

you will see 2 jam nuts locked against what looks like a loonnggg nut on each cable.. Theyre all 10mm

loosten both jam nuts (ONE of them is reverse thread.. So make sure your not tighteneing them) and then remove the codder pins from the shifter and pull the cables off..

Feel the movement of the shifter.. or measure it.. center the shifter dead on (do this with the cables disconnected so the shifter moves freely)

once you have that shifter centered look at where the 2 pins that connect to the cables are.. adjust the length of the cables by spinning the long looking nut..

you want the cables to be exactly centered over those pins when the shifter is perfectly centered in its free travel range..

then reconnect..


BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!

FIRST.. HAVE someone sit in your car with the car not running and move the shifter through the gears while you WATCH UNDER THE HOOD where your cables attach to the tranny.. WATCH THAT BRACKET!! if it moves!! theres your problem.. Tighten the bolts that attach that bracket to your tranny..

thats actually a pretty common problem that ppl overlook in the shifter linkage..


If that bracket had in fact come loose.. once its tightened.. THEN go back and adjust your shifter..

When that bracket flops back and fourth it has the affect of lengthening the throw required by your shifter to get your car into gear.. but the shifter has stops built into it.. so it can become impossible to get the car into certain gears if that bracket is moving around.

Any time you do anything that changes the location of those shifter cables you have to re-adjust them

Yep Ben. I can agree. There is also rubber bushings on that bracket, and when those bushings wear out, the bracket starts to move forwards and backwards.

I was having issues with my red 1gB popping out of 1st and 4th not wanting to engage sometimes.


Turns out that I have a 2g AWD transmission in my red 1gB. That bracket was flopping around and the bushings were shot.

The side to side adjustment was dead on.

The front to back was out of whack, since it is a 2g AWD transmission in a 1g AWD car.