hi, i accidentaly took the wrong bolt out to drain my trani fluid a week ago and as the oil poured out it also drained out a 1' spring and apperently a small bearing[havent seen the bearing yet]. if the bearing did come, then ill be able to find it in the oil. I know ive seen somebody else here that did the same exact thing as i did and a spring and single bearing came out. Did you just put it back in there?
i worry because i wont want to just shove the bearing in and then the spring, and have a bearing doing something bad in my transmission like jumping around. im guessing i put the bearing in first and then spring right?
Anybody know what to do?
"That is the detent (detant sp?) spring. There should have been a small meal ball that came out with the spring. It is the mechanism that keeps the shifter in gear"

 

Hopefully you only removed one of the detente ball/springs from the tranny case. The ball goes in first, then the spring, finally the bolt.

See page MT-13, top illustration.
http://www.davidgeesaman.com/maxima/MT.pdf

Dave

 

yeah it was only the one bolt i took out, ever since it c ame out ive had a TON of slack in 1st and 2nd gear and a bit in 3rd, but only 1 and 2 actualy fall out of gear.
i cant find anything specific in this pdf it would take forever..
i guess ill just put it all back where it came from
thanks for the help

 

Well it is the 1-2 shift rod detente, so when you put it back in, 1-2 should not be sloppy. It makes complete sense. You should be able to find it in the picture on the top of MT-13.

The 3rd gear thing is probably unrelated.

Dave