[DML] Re: Manual transmission observation

["Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Change the clutch line ASAP if not sooner. It's causing you to NOT 
disengage the gears completely (your lazy clutch action). It's worse 
when hot since the line balloons. This will quicky, if it has not 
already, wear out the sliding gear teeth and break the second gear 
shift rollpin. The sliding gear is hard to buy/expensive. The rollpin 
is about $1 but is buried pretty deep in the trans. I have no idea 
why this wears out the expensive sliding gear and not the relatively 
inexpensive brass syncro ring, but that's how it works.

Dave S - just rebuilt another one this week, one more on the floor 
waiting.


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Nathan Sobieralski" 
<valleyrat12@...> wrote:
>
> Hello again,
> 
> Overall I have been happy with my tranny however it does have 
> some "idiosyncrasies" I thought I would bring up.
> 
> 1- My car does not like to downshift into first gear. If I let it 
> slow down a lot it will go in but if I continue to apply force the 
> gear will grind, ouch! 
> 
> 2- This has only happened a couple times: while traveling at 
highway 
> speeds and shifting from 4th to 5th it would grind. I think this 
> could possibly have been due to a lazy clutch foot.  
> 
> I replaced the 25 year old 







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