Vehicle information (transmission is the only relevant part):


While driving today, I was shifting into 5th gear and the gear was making a grinding noise (as if it wasn't being pushed into the synchronizer fully).
The next thing I know: The RPMs spike up, and the gear shifting lever falls into 5th. Then it freely moves around without any resistance at all.

I pull over into an empty area, and look under the hood. I immediately look at the transmission.
I was looking at the shift linkage on the firewall. It was fine. I looked at it on the transmission side, and that's when I knew something was wrong.

The MTX-75 has a weight on the part where the shift linkage hooks up to.
That weighted part (looks like a hammer) is supposed to pivot on a metal stud.
That metal stud was sheered off, or snapped off.. I'm not sure which.

What is the part name/number of where that stud goes?
I can't see that great, but I am assuming it gets bolted on top of the transmission itself.

Sadly, I do not have a picture of it, or my car here, or a camera to take a picture of it with.

My next major questions are:
- Would an epoxy be strong enough to hold a piece of metal to the sheered off stud enough to let me shift it (so I can drive it home or to a shop)?
- Would someone be able to spot-weld a new metal stud onto it (extending it out, so you can shift again), while everything's on the vehicle?

Thanks.

19 days later, here's the answers:

Epoxy? Doubt it (never tried)

Spot-weld? YES!
Will it hold: Yes...
Will it hold if you accidentally broke it while putting the transmission back in, and have it re-welded? Yes.... for about 40 miles.

"Shifting tower" is what it's called.
The rocking arm snapped off.

haha heres my mazda, made a custom braket to hold my shifter cable

Sadly I couldn't do something like the.

The part that broke is the shifting arm (black rubber mallet thing):


The one on the left (golden plate). It literally snapped OFF.

It's what spins in a circle, which moves the gear selecting pin around.

I ended up going to a junk yard and replacing it.

This post was edited by Muted on Jul 30 2013 02:33am