Over the past two weeks, my 02 C4S started missing gears when shifting. It’s 3rd and 5th only. When I go to shift into them occasionally (up or downshift) the lever moves seamlessly but nothing engages, just feels like a big empty void. No grinding. If I release the clutch and re-engage it, I am able to shift and engage that gear. I don’t have any grinding or difficulty engaging or disengaging from gears otherwise. Based on the behavior and some of what I found on the forum, I plan on putting the car up and looking at the shift cables to see if there is play. I couldn’t find a problem described like this, so thought I’d ask though to make sure I’m looking at the right things.

Car has 64k miles on. I don’t think it is the original clutch, but I need to check with the dealer who serviced it under a PO. Overall clutch travel and feel seems to be same as it has always been for the 13k miles (past year) I’ve owned the car.

Thanks

When you checked the cables, did you only check where the ends connect to the trans? You need to check upstream a few inches where the cables connect to the bracket on the side of the trans. You will have the problem you are describing when the cable is not held in the bracket correctly.

having checked yet, will be checking this week. Thanks for the suggestion, I will look there.

Meant to close this out. Checked it while doing an oil change. Both the selector and gear shift were popped out of the brackets as Tomcat described. Popped them both in and works great. Now to deal with a stripped oil pan plug....

sorry, wasn’t clear. It’s the plug, the 8mm hex stripped. It’s a new magnetic plug and this was the third oil change with it. Used correct tool, torques, etc. as far as I know. Discovered my rear tires are shredding at the rim too and need to be replaced. At least I can shift sitting in the driveway.