Shifter Check Return Spring

[Hijacker]

I was doing some work on the transmission and had to pull the shifter to allow for the transmission to be dropped a bit. I was warned not to lose the return spring and check ball located under the shifter, but when I pulled the shifter, the spring nor ball were there. Is it located between the shifter and the linkage, or somewhere else? I can't tell by the diagrams. Thanks in advance

[SHIFTrl240]

if im not mistaken, i believe there is a bolt/some sort of screw on cap that goes on the side of the shifter hole. thats where it is

[Hijacker]

the circled ball and spring are what i'm talking about.



and just to be safe, i took a magnet and did some fishing around and couldn't turn anything up around the linkage arm.

[SHIFTrl240]

yeah, right above it where it shows "return spring plug" thats what im thinking

thats where it goes i believe, just has that there to show how the ball goes in? dunno

[Hijacker]

found where it goes. it's held in by the bearing retainer plate. Not sure why it's there, but it is. i should have just checked further down in the FSM

[s13sr20chris]

you should not have to remove that. i think the one to not lose is the one thats under the bigger bolt on the shifter plate.

[Hijacker]

well, i was preparing to remove the shifter plate (bearing retainer plate, whatever). That's why I was asking. I pulled the bolts, and I couldn't get the plate to break loose, so I put it all back together to try another day. Plus I deduced from the lack of a transmission boot, that the gear oil i was leaking was coming from there, and not from the plate gasket. the spring itself isn't under a bolt, it's in a seperate housing between the bolts. Oh well.

[s13sr20chris]

thats another spring. the bearing retainer plate is the iron/steel plate that the two transmission housings bolt to. you are looking at another part with the same name bro.

[Hijacker]

either or. the original question is moot now because i couldn't get the shifter plate off. excuse me for calling the part by a name i was hearing other people call it.

[s13sr20chris]

oops, i guess i have been splitting hairs for no reason. sorry. did you try hitting a screwdriver/hammer combo on it? thats how i usually get them off. it takes some force to break the rtv seal. those lower shiftboots can be a nasty leak when they rip.

[Hijacker]

yeah. but me, being the idiot i am, did so with the crossmember still unbolted, so all the impact force was being transmitted back into the transmission. all i was doing was moving the transmission instead of knocking the plate loose.