[ColoWRXer]

today i was coasting to a stop while taking off my flip flops....i instinctively went from 3rd to neutral. then i realized i didn't have my foot on the clutch because i was taking off my shoes. this kind of worried me. so i tried it again. i tired it in 2nd, 3rd and 4th and it happened in each gear. i didn't do anything abusive, just applied a little pressure and it popped out of gear (with clutch fully engaged). this has never happened without me doing it (it never just pops out of gear itself, which happened on my old g20).

i also remember a few weeks ago when i was rev-matching to downshift to second, i didn't have the clutch in and was applying a little pressure downward on the shifter and when i hit the right revs it just slid into gear, clutch still engaged. none of these occurences seem to be hurting anything, no wierd noises or anything like that.

it made me think my shifter was sloppy though. i have front shifter bushings but i can move the shifter back and forth (front to back) maybe 3/8in. i got under the car and found that the gear shift rod (connects to shifter shaft and goes into tranny) moves in and out of the tranny about 3/8in. it doesn't matter if it's in gear or neutral.


i know it's a lot of info but i'm not too versed in tranny stuff so i'm trying to explain it well. should i be worried? is something going bad?

thanks.