Hey guys!
Still me and my yellow mx5, this time with a quite unusual issue I would of thought.
When i got this car it was my first project and for whatever reason i decided to strip and refit everything with a clean, which was a mistake now I think back to it.
So part of the interior stripping I removed the automatic gearing mechanism, I still don’t know why, had a look, and put it back together when I decided it was a good time to put everything back together.
But ever since then all the gears were messy, I couldnt get into park, the furthest I could physically go, which showed up as “P” was actually reverse, then “R” was neutral, '‘N’ was then drive, I guess ‘D’ was 2nd gear and “2” was 1st gear, no idea what ‘1’ was but I think it went down enough to there, and anything under ‘P’ was smooth when going through, there was no resistance when going on each gear, it was all over the place!
And of course not having park means I couldnt take the key out and could use it on things like my boot, leading me to have to take out the boot mechanism, so it was a chain reaction of problems.
It’s been a year now and I got used to it, but no way would I pass the MOT with this, atleast I don’t think, I need to get it ready for its first MOT and would love to get this fixed but I was completely clueless as I was disassembling today like I was a year ago.
I tried take the whole shifter out until only the gearing rod was there, tried to push that as far forward as I could hoping that was park, I knew when it wasn’t reverse because mx5s give out a beep when they are in reverse, unless I was in neutral, I’m pretty sure I was in park if I was pushing it forward, but I had no way of telling, and the key still won’t come out or turn back fully to the lock position.
Upon inspecting the shifter I didn’t understand anything, like what the wires were, why I had two random white wires, and was this weird box was with a piston sticking out that I could push back and forth with a handle.
To say the least I have no idea what I’m doing and I apologize that you have to hear this story of a problem I brought into myself but I’m hoping someone works in the dumb division and could fix this unusual problem I saw noone else have
I have attached some pictures of what I was doing incase anything looked wrong (pretty sure everything does)
If there’s anything I missed or badly explained , let me know, I’ll go more in depth and do it as I’m with the car , since I’m writing off the top of my head and just needed to reach out to the master race for ideas
Appreciate the time and I hope you enjoyed reading that, I think I should get top marks on my English essays!
To update ya’ll, I’m at school but my dad received the new automatic shifter mechanism, the gears now are right, probably because he got the linkage in the right place this time, rather than it bring a new mech, but I needed a new one anyways.
But there is still a problem, the key still won’t come out the barrel even in park, could it be something electric? I cant give anymore info until I see the car myself on Friday.