Q: Powerful resistance when shifting into 1st, 3rd or 5th gear

asked by on February 18, 2017

Yesterday I took off and cleaned the ICAV, and removed and put back on the throttle body to fix idle issues and revving problems. This fixed that however now I cannot get the shifter to go into 1st 3rd or 5th. ONLY the odd gears are having trouble. 2nd, 4th, 6th and R. All work fine with no issues or problems. The shifter requires force to put into gear, and then sticks, almost pulling back when you try and come out of 1st 3rd and 5th.

My car has 178000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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