My t5 shot?

[chobracobra]

Hey its been a while since ive been on here......while making a left turn, i had my foot on the clutch with the shifter in second. when i finished turning and took my foot off the clutch to accelerate.....BOOM! second gear gone. no gear thrash noise, no clattering, just an instant boom. all other gears are fine. did second like "pop" out or is it shot? i wasnt reving it or anything...just too much torque i guess lol thanks

 

[NIKwoaC]

In my experience, when a transmission gear goes, its usually a lopsided break, and the trans will vibrate like hell when you have the car in another gear. The only real way to tell, I guess, is to take the trans apart. You're going to have to anyway, to fix second!

 

[chobracobra]

yea i dont even know what im gonna do. im at school and the car is moth-balled for now. i may just get a new stronger tranny next summer but thats loot. i never rebuilt a tranny before, mainly dont got tools for that. like i said....all the other gears were fine but im still not gonna be driving it. just trying to figure out what happened

 

[NIKwoaC]

Exact same thing happened to me while I was in school a few years back. Shredded 3rd gear the very last day of summer, and the car had to sit until the following spring on jack stands with the bottom opened up. I ended up saving my pennies and dimes (broke college kid) and bought an Astro Performance "Cobra" T-5. Flawless performance since! It did suck to go without the car for so long though.

I have also rebuilt my own T-5 before. It takes a bit of patience, but with a torque wrench, a dial indicator, and a good how-to reference (video or book) anybody with half a mechanical mind can do it.

 

[Mustang5L5]

2nd is on the same shift fork/synchro slider as 1st gear.

So if you lost 2nd, more than likely you sheared either the teeth or the dog teeth of the gear off.

You'll have to open the trans up to see what needs to be replace. Hopefully you got lucky and just sheared the dog teeth off 2nd. It would be an easy fix. Shearing 2nd gear entirely might have taken the expensive countergear with it.