93 SL@ hops out of gear

My 93 SL2 will occasionally jump from 4th to neutral while I am driving down
the road. I am not accelerating when this occurs. The problem happens for
awhile and then goes away. Any one know why this happens?

TIA,

Mark

 

My 93 SL2 will occasionally jump from 4th to neutral while I am driving
down

I have the same problem. I've found that it happens when I don't fully
engage the gear when shifting into it. In other words, make sure you are
fully in gear (even if you have to double-clutch) or there is a chance it
will pop out.

Also, it'll do it more often if you accelerate hard. Nothing like hitting
the 6000+ rev-limiter because your car jumps out of gear!

Joe - V#8013 - '86 VN750 - joe @ yunx .com
Ask me about "The Ride" on July 31, '04:
http://www.youthelate.com/the_ride.htm

 

My guess is that either the linkage needs adjustment or you have a
broken mount.

 

My 93 has the same problem and this is one problem that has
existed since first owning the vehicle. I, long ago, read of
some bulletin that basically said that this problem was due to a
mis-match of some gear and that it would require a change of
that gear in order to mesh correctly. I was never able to get
the detailed hard info, i.e. paper, from any source, but there
were quite a few listed problems that seemed to indicate a
number design problems that needed attention. I had gotten the
list of defects that listed these campaign problems from a
library source that had compiled such auto related problem info.
I still have the printout somewhere. My list did not go into
great depth for each problem as it only listed these problems.
Again, this was info from many years ago, yet this one problem
stuck in my mind as it was very apparent from day one....

Maybe someone who is Saturn experienced with the history of the
93's campaign bulletins can add, or shed, some additional info

 

I had a similar sounding problem on my 92 SL2 waay back when it was under
warranty. Saturn seemed to know what to do to fix the problem. My writeup
from when it was fixed (4/94) says they replaced the "housing assembly" on
the tranny, part # 21120077.

Not sure if this is the same problem you have, but maybe you can ask your
local service dept about it...