^ This is likely your problem. If you drop the tranny and your input shaft looks like so, there's the likely explanation for your notchy shifting. It didn't cost me anything because I had a mechanically inclined friend help me out we spent a saturday doing it.

It will take you a few hours to drop the tranny, but once it's off at least you will know whether or not this is your problem. Just take a flywheel and clean up the rust from the splines and re-grease it with some heavy duty grease. Mine was incredibly dry and rusted, almost as if it never had any grease on it at all! Once we greased it and re-installed the tranny, it was shifting like butter.

And if it turns out your input shaft isn't rusted, then at least you already have the tranny off the car. Your next option would be to look into a rebuild or else find a good used tranny and throw that on (probably the cheapest, easiest option). Good luck man keep us updated.

 

nice! thanks so much man i appreciate your help, im going to have a mechanic check it out tomorrow. im going to show him this. i hope this is the problem! i will def keep you updated!

thanks again for your help