Hey everyone, im new to the forums here and am in a bit of a panic on what is wrong with my car. For context, i drive a 1991 BMW E30 318is, with a m50 motor swapped, and magnaflow exhaust, everything else is basically stock. Just recently my center support bearing went out while i was driving around town, so other than the massive amount of vibration while accelerating, i babied it back to my house, and as i pulled into my street the whole drive shaft dropped out of the transmission, it swung around and broke the shift linkage causing the shift nob to shoot off into my hand. After jacking it up and looking, all the bolts had fallen out causing that to happen, and it broke the shift linkage in two pieces. Other than that, damage was very minimal, and i removed the shift linkage, had it welded by a friend and i looks like new now. Bought a new center support with bearing, and a new drive shaft flex disc. Installed all the new parts, put the shift linkage back in the way i originally found it, put the boot and shift nob back on. The car runs great, but it doesn't shift into second or fourth gear, which i realize is the only gears you pull back to shift into, reverse, first and third and fith gear work fine and they are the ones you push forwards to shift into.
So my question is, has anyone ever ran into this problem? Could it just be shift bushings have gone bad, or linkage is not aligned? Or could it be deeper into the transmission, and i need to take it to a shop? Any help is greatly appreciated, and i will try to upload photos of the damage later.
Topic: E30 318is Shifting problems (Read 2264 times)