Bad Shifter Bushing?

[m.dongle]

I have been having somewhat erractic shifting problems. Most notably, the shifter will slips out of 5th gear and into neutral. I can hold the shifter into 5th position and it will stick but that is not a solution.

Also having a slight grinding going into 2nd gear. This is not a serious issue, I can double clutch and often get into second. Or I have also been known to bypass 2nd, going from 1st to third.

I was told that a bad shifter bushing could be the cuse of the slipping into neutral. Is this difficult to replace myself?

Are there any other ideas / opinions?

TIA

 

[Creager]

sounds like the syncro's are worn, rebuild is probably the only thing probable.

 

[alexefron]

Check what kind of fluid is in it. The m5od's were soposed to have ATF in them. When i got my explorer at 154k it had gear oil in it, and shifts much better after getting ATF back in it. When i got it it would sometimes grind going into 2nd and 3rd, and took a fair amount of force to shift into those gears.