[illusionsoflife]

so i found some nice man with a shop to do my clutch for 836...my loving girlfriend gave me 400 dollars for my bday to help out. damn i love her. other places wanted around 1200-1500 so much. every place even the guy i used said that the focus has a tough to get to spot for clutch. so i got my car back today. you know when your 5 spd is idle and you pull it straight down it goes it to fourth or up is 3rd...for some reason its set more to the right now. i pull down it goes into 2nd up 1st. if i want 4th i go right then down...anyway to fix this? it doesnt bother me actually...just getting use to it.

 

[StealthGray]

Just sounds like the linkage needs to be adjusted. I don't know how it's done, but it shouldn't be a big deal for someone who does know how to do it.

 

[focusin]

Take it back and if they did not put it back together right then they need to fix it.

 

[illusionsoflife]

damn...this place is so far. i didnt really notice cause i had 4 hours of sleep then got a ride there then drove back and by the time i noticed i was almost home...its so far...guess ill be calling him

 

[FucusUnderground]

Isn't that proceedure in the Hayne's manual?

 

[SVT Robzor]

This was covered recently, luckily the post was easy to dig up. Looky here:

http://www.focushacks.com/index.php?modid=49

http://www.teamfocus.us/shiftcable.htm

Different methods of doing the same thing. Instructions are certainly good enough to find the adjusters. I tried to apply this on the SVT's getrag and found that A) I could NOT access them from beneath, and B) the method of adjustment may well be completely different, or else mine were already perfect.

Hope that helps.

EDIT: If you cant get at them from underneath on your car, as I couldnt mine, I just had to detatch my SRI and the top of the tranny where the linkages mount is right there.

 

[zal]

^ we use the ib5, but the MTX istructions may work