T45 Slave Cylinder

Kenz said:
Nice! I remember when I got mine going, first thought was "holy ****, this is way faster".... :irocz:

Sounds like it will be a monster since you have it boosted too
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It’s an entirely different animal!

Just gotta get the tune dialed in and it’ll be good to go
 
Ran into an issue with the T45 swap, the car will shift though all gears perfectly fine, but it gets stuck in reverse and it’s extremely hard to get it out of reverse, I’m assuming the rod I made for the slave cylinder needs adjustment, but I haven’t gotten to that yet. I’m open to suggestions on what else it could be.
 
Ericv8thunderbird said:
Ran into an issue with the T45 swap, the car will shift though all gears perfectly fine, but it gets stuck in reverse and it’s extremely hard to get it out of reverse, I’m assuming the rod I made for the slave cylinder needs adjustment, but I haven’t gotten to that yet. I’m open to suggestions on what else it could be.
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Not the slave, it’s actually an issue inherent with T45 transmissions themselves, as the reverse fork/countergear setup is a little wacky, there’s several TSBs about it and some running fixes that never quite fully solved it. I intended to do this to the T45 I was going to use until I got my TR3650.

US20080302195A1 - Reverse shift jump out of gear fix for model T45, 5 speed manual automotive transmission - Google Patents

The invention described herein is the first known solution to modify the original model T45 manual transmission to prevent or fix the documented reverse shift problems inherit in the original production design as described in the Background of the Invention section included in this application.
patents.google.com

This is basically the nuclear option as rather than “strengthened” forks that were Fords ineffective solutions, this puts the countergear in constant mesh and deletes the portion of fork that moves the countergear sleeve. Now the fork only engage/disengages the reverse synchro, having to do both is what causes all the reverse gear problems in the T45.
 
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Is it only hard to get it out with the engine running, or is it hard to get out with the engine off too? If it is only with the engine running, then it could be a clutch issue, but if it is hard to get out of reverse even with the engine off, then it could be something internal in the trans, or it could be a shifter issue.
 
MadMikeyL said:
Is it only hard to get it out with the engine running, or is it hard to get out with the engine off too? If it is only with the engine running, then it could be a clutch issue, but if it is hard to get out of reverse even with the engine off, then it could be something internal in the trans, or it could be a shifter issue.
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Only while the engine is running, I could shut it off and it will shift out of reverse.
 
Then it isn’t internal in the trans. Likely the clutch isn’t disengaging all the way. Does it engage really low? For the S10 slave to work best, the pushrod should be pushing on the part of the fork where the cable usually comes through, not where the cable would be resting. I use threaded rod to be able to adjust it, lock 2 nuts together for the adjustment, and drill out an old lug nut to fit over it to act as the pivot point on the clutch fork.
 
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