Having trouble selecting 5th, it’s as if it’s not there and the gear stick just pops back out. I’ve tried different speeds, doubling the clutch, revving a little between gears but about 80% of the time it doesn’t select.
Last week whilst struggling to select 5th, I went to 6th instead and then pop....no drive at all, which turned out to be a split clutch plate (centre had split from friction plate part).
I assumed when the mechanics fixed this, it would fix 5th gear.
They said it was all good when test driven but I had the same trouble less than 10km up the road.
Does anyone know what the problem is?
Is it something I can do myself?

 

Probably the gears inside tranny are out of alignment. Saw a video on it years ago. Cant remember exactly. There is a fork that goes inside tranny and moves a gear around. If something is off just a smidge in there it creates problems. I believe it was Eric the car guy with some transmission specialist doing a rebuild talking about this. I'll see if I can find vid.

 

Welcome to the North American Ranger forum

You are in Australia so have a completely different Ranger than the one we have here
Yours is a T6 Ford Ranger

We got a similar body style to yours in 2019/20 but still a different "animal", we don't have diesel option, petrol only and 4cyl, we also only get automatics, no manuals any more, let alone a 6-speed manual, lol

That being said
On manual transmissions with cross cut gears there is a detent that holds the shifter in the selected gear or it will "pop out" of gear because of the cross cut on the gears
If your transmission is a "top loader" you can often fix it without total disassembly but you still need to pull out the transmission in most cases

Google: australia ford ranger forums

There are a few