iVanRoz

Ok after searching for about an hour I gave up and decided to make a thread.
Anyways here's my situation. I was happily driving my Z down to the beach when suddenly my shifter started feeling weird when switching gears. The shifter "bounced" around and made a ratting noise it also had a sluggish feel to it. I parked the car and checked the clutch hydraulics to see if they were good. The master clutch was not leaking and as far as I could tell neither was the slave. (I replaced both of these a few months ago). The clutch itself seems to be good I didn't notice any slippage. The car still goes into every gear and theres no sigh and I can't hear any noise coming from the transmission itself.

I'd love to get your guys input on this. Could it be a bad shifter bushing? Low transmission fluid? Maybe a transmission mount?
Now that I think of it the issue started just as I was going down a really steep incline down to the beach strand. Don't know if has something to do with it or it was just coincidence.

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FUUARK

Shifter support bracket - Try pulling off the interior plastics surrounding the shifter, then remove the 4 bolts holding down the rubber shifter boot.

It seems that it is a common issue for the shifter support bracket to drop or become loose.

Mikester

It's either the bushings or it simply came too loose in the bracketing that connects it to the striker rod... or both.

My shifter rattles at 3,000rpm & above, but only because I was dumb enough to put SPL solid shifter bushings in (hate them but love the feel lol). It still shifts very precisely and is nice & tight tho.

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