well guys as some might remeber my car was in the shop for a little over a month to get the trans fixed when it ended up being a roll pin...well i got the car back a little less than 2 weeks ago and guess what it did today! it ****** broke agen.....not even driveing hard about to down shift and go in to a parking lot....i cont even begin to say how pissed and unhappy i am with that car rite now.....this has never happend to me before on any of my other cars!!

 

Man that really sucks. Did it do the same thing as last time it broke?

 

Sounds like maybe someone didn't finish the job the first time. I've only had one problem with mine and that was the linkage cable was tensioned too tightly (others had the same problem and the cable will eventually snap). Service manager adjusted it for me and now it's perfect. I even got complements from some Honda guys about the smoothness in the shifter (which says a LOT for it, since Hondas tend to have very smooth shifters).

 

Give GM a call because your dealer didn't do the job right.

 

ya man, its obvious the dealer missed something there.

 

i've called in my contacts and delt with the dealer....there going to do a little custom work on that specific pice on my car and they better hope it works out or they are going to have one very pissed of guy in there servis shop

 

How can you tell id your linkage is too tight? Is it normal for you to have to apply more force to get it to go in first gear (at a dead stop) then any of the other gears?

 

i have no clue how to tell but yes 1st is harder to get in to than the others

 

my first is a bitch to get into sometimes, sometimes wont go in at all untill i clutch, neutral, clutch, then first.

 

Bryan, that's a bummer.

 

That sh_t sucks man, I hope things work out well.

 

The dealer tech fucked it up who worked on it. When the EVO's were new one guy in my shop had to rebuild a few and screwed up the first couple cause they were towed back in in a week.

 

Dam that sucks. I hate having a hard time getting in first (from a stop). Ive never had a standard car before. Sure isint good to force it in that im sure.

 

let us know what it is. maybe something unrelated went in there.

 

Ditto there's very rare occasions it feels like hitting a wall...every time it happens I cuss up a damn storm but I'm not all about taking my car in for tranny work if that's the only problem I'm having (and it happens so irratically they'd have a hard time reproducing it).

Hopefully they take care of your tranny problems, what a huge pain in the ass to say the least.

 

Clame lemon law and get a new cobalt.

 

Yes, it should be hard to get into first gear, even at a dead stop. There is a lockout mechanism on 1st, designed to prevent accidental downshift while moving. If you listen, you can hear it (should be a thud sound). Ironically it's supposed to lock out over 20, but just messing around one day with the clutch in, i got it to go into first (NEVER letting off the clutch) at 40.

At any rate, first should be hard to get into, but when you're stopped go to 2nd and then 1st. EVERYONE I know shifts a manual like that and it'll go in smooth as can be. Your linkage is too tight if you CONSISTANTLY have problems with the other gears during normal (NOT hard) shifting. My problems were with 2nd and sometimes 4th. I'd go to shift and there would be a brick wall there or I'd get it in and it would pop back out. Took it to the service manager, talked to him, he went out in the parking lot and got in there and loosened the cable just a little bit and *poof* no more problems. Occasional problems aren't anything to worry about, if it's doing it all the time then there's a problem.

 

Sell the car.

 

SHES BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
got her this morning and now shes sporting new spark plugs/new billet flow 2.9 pully/new windsheld!!!

i love her once agen...they dubbled up the roll pin this time...we'll see how she works this time

 

How does that pulley feel? I wanted to wait until spring to install mine (3.15) but it's getting hard.

 

its amazeing!!!! but i get some belt squeel and i dont know how to stop it.
it pulls soooo hard now i hit 80 now like the car hit 60 before...do it now and hope you clutch survives!

 

"Belt Dressing" and tension.

 

that sucks , but alteast you got it back quicker


get that pulley arm that is on ebay , it moves the idler wheel to make up the slack in the belt

or a larger idler or tensioner pulley