Transmission Problems, stuck in neutral

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I broke my 5th reverse shift fork. I had another KA transmission laying around so I swapped the bellhousings and put it in. The shifter is in what appears to be neutral, but I can't move it at all. No side to side play and it won't go into gear at all. With the car on or off. I looked underneath and the slave cylinder is pushing the clutch fork. When the car is on, if you let out the clutch the car dies, but nothing turns.

So I figured I'll take the back housing off of my other transmission and then I can pull that other transmission out and swap the forks into my transmission that I know is good, just has a broken fork. I took the roll pin out of that shifter base thing so I can pull the back cover off but it some how went into 2nd gear and I can't get it back into neutral to take it apart. I had one apart awhile ago and all i did was take out that roll pin, slide it off and then pull the cover straight off, it's been a while but i thought that's how i did it. But now i can't get it in neutral.

So it's either find out why the transmission in there is locked up, or how to get the other one apart so I can just change those forks.


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When you swapped the bellhousing onto your KA trans, you probably got the shifter forks off center of the bellhousing cover. It's pretty easy to do and not realize it.


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