Greetings:

Tonight I had to merge quickly on the highway as a semi was determined to roll right over me. As I was accelerating and quickly tried to shift from 3rd to 4th, I accidentally slid the shifter too far to the right and started to move the shifter into reverse! The tranny growled at me a bit and immediately I knew what I had done and then correctly found 4th. This has never happened and I know it is because I was seriously panicked about getting rear ended.

Everything seems to shift ok now including reverse. Has this happened to anyone else? I know from some of Daniel's posts that the noise was probably the synchronizers. How serious of a boo-boo was this? I can't imagine I'm the only person that has ever done this not only on our cars, but with a manual tranny in general. I can't help but thinking our cars can handle some occassional abuse such as this. How can I access if any damage occurred?

Thanks

 

your probably ok man. a few months ago i was redlined in 3rd gear, about to shift to 4th and i accidentally stuffed it in 2nd...let off the clutch and pegged the tach. pushed in the clutch about 2 seconds later and pulled over, it idled fine, and to this day i havnt had any problems with it, so i figure its fine! lucky though

casey

 

No real harm was done.

 

Isn't the grinding actually caused by the dog collar teeth trying to engage the gear (and not the synchronizers)? As long as you can get it into all gears, its very doubtful you hurt the dog collar teeth.

 

Thanks all for the replies. It is greatly appreciated. I really am very careful with my max so it disturbs me when something like this happens.

Neptune, I don't know if it was the dog teeth or the synchros. I don't know enough about manual transmissions.