Tremec TKO, Shifting problems

[tomspo04]

Tom:
I personally have never heard of an issue shifting into 5th under load. Not sure what to advise you on that. Maybe GMJim can chime in and offer something, perhaps he's had that call?

The TKO's gates are evenly spaced (to the best of my knowledge) so I can rule out you overshifting when trying to hit 5th. The only thing I can come up with and I hate to say it, is driver error? maybe you're "trying to hard" to hit 5th under load? Not letting it "naturally" find 5th on it's own when you're on the gas?

Being that you have the TKO in 2nd gen Camaro, the shifter should be in what "we" call the mid-offset shift position. Basically that means that the shifter is hangin over the drivers side of the transmission. I don't know where you purchased the kit from but if it was a Keisler modified trans. then the shifter is offset to the driverside and is actually connected to the shifter rail via a link. If the bolts holding the link to the cup are not tight, then it might cause a hard to find 5th issue? Is this one of Keisler's or CC5S or someone elses? How is the shifter setup? Is it anything like I just described?


Richard
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Richard, Thanks for taking the time to respond. I've got the Mcloed offset shifter. It puts the shifter right in the middle of the console and seems to work well. I've been banging gears for a long time, but...I guess it could be driver error. I'm not sure what I could do different to prevent this from happening, though. I'm away right now but will take it for a spin when I get home to get a better feel for what's going on. I hope you're right; if this can corrected with technique it would be better than pulling the tranny.

Tom