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| Joined: | 07-23-2005 |
| Location: | Franktown, Colorado USA |
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I'm having my five speed mechanism rebuilt by Pete Bahr (Pete's Kits) and I'm thinking its time to address another problem I'm having with the transmission. I had my getrag refurbished a few years ago (basically all new bearings and seals) but am still getting crunching primarilly in first and second. Grinding is more predominant in downshifts from third to second and second to first (I manage this somewhat by matching rpm to tranny shaft speed). I also get crunching when sitting in neutral, say at a light, etc then shifting to first and occasionally on the upshift from first to second, especially during spirited driving.
Clearly it is the synchros. I was told that the synchros were worn and they smoothed them up a bit but only helped marginally when tranny rebuilt. My question(s) to the group are:
- Has anybody had new synchros replaced, how were the results?
- Where did you get the synchros from?
- Is there anything else that can be done to help mitigate the problem (different tranny lube, more slack on release bearing, etc) that has helped in similar cases?
Any info, thoughts, ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Lash