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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: SteveR on 22 May 2009, 20:04

Title: mk2 GTI 5th gear
Post by: SteveR on 22 May 2009, 20:04: Hi all

Recently bought a 1988 mk2 GTI golf as a project and was running fine up to two weeks after purchase then something went wrong with 5th gear.
I put the gear stick into the position of 5th but the revse rocket sky high as if i have put it into 2nd!
is there a simple remedy or does this mean a new gear box?

All help would be greatly apprieciated!

Steve
Title: Re: mk2 GTI 5th gear
Post by: Dan34 on 22 May 2009, 20:05: does it still go in fifth? sounds to me like youve knackered fifth i could be wrong tho

Dan
Title: Re: mk2 GTI 5th gear
Post by: SteveR on 22 May 2009, 20:17: yeh, it engages a gear when i but it in fifth but when i lift the clutch it revse its tits off an and the car slows rapid. yeh i think your right, just dont want to get another gear box when the one i had was fine lol.

Steve
Title: Re: mk2 GTI 5th gear
Post by: JC on 22 May 2009, 20:20: search time on here, sure there was a thread about this just the other day :wink:
Title: Re: mk2 GTI 5th gear
Post by: Ben Lessani on 22 May 2009, 20:24: Sounds like you are putting it in 3rd :rolleyes:

Check the smaller of the two plastic linkages - it has a profound effect on fifth.
Title: Re: mk2 GTI 5th gear
Post by: frybert on 22 May 2009, 21:03: yer i agree, sounds like 3rd. just try fildeling round with the linkage
Title: Re: mk2 GTI 5th gear
Post by: jezza16v on 22 May 2009, 22:51: Put in fifth from under the bonnet using the main shaft off the gearbox. Start the car (with the cluth depressed of course) and let the clutch in slowly to see if there is any 'drive'. Clearly you're not going to get rolling in fifth but you'll soon know if you stall the engine that the gear is there and its probably a linkage problem. Not getting fifth in my experiences with mk2's is the plastic bush next to the exhaust that the gear change shaft runs through gets totally shot, often but not always accompanied by difficulty in getting reverse or first. Usually worse when everything is warm as the plastic gets softened from the exhaust heat. If the gear is there then you'll need to sort out the linkage, and if you haven't had the car long get the gearbox oil level checked out quickly. Two out of the four I've had only had half a litre in when I got them, they should have 2, and I believe fifth is the first to go if they run dry.
Title: Re: mk2 GTI 5th gear
Post by: aaron1980 on 23 May 2009, 00:23: How hard have you been driving it? it sounds like the linkage rather than the box to me! can you find all the gears when you are not moving?