Been noticing that my tranny is getting hard to shift from 3rd-4th. Seems the shifter gets stuck and its kinda hard to take it out.. I changed the tranny fluid and it helped for the 1st week and now its back again. It does it even with the car at a stand still if i put it in 3rd, its hard to put it back in neutral...it does NOT grind or lock out

It does NOT do it all the time, i say about 50-60% of the time.
Im guessing the clutch or flywheel maybe going bad!

Any suggestions? This happen to anyone else? Again this is only from 3-4 shift or downshifting from 4-3rd

 

put some KY jelly on it!

 

If youre gona post, please keep it on topic and refrain from pointless posts

 

Have you tried adjusting your clutch? What tranny fluid did you use when you changed it?

 

Not yet, i used penzoil syncromesh

 

Penzoil is good for about 3k miles then it turns to sludge. Try adjusting your clutch a little. You probably wore the stock one out a bit busting those 12.5's

 

sounds like the exact same problem i had. i hate to be the bearer of bad news but start saving up for a transmission rebuild. hopefully it wont come to that but have that money backed up for it.

i had the same symptoms and i'd wished i'd had the money backed up. i had to borrow a grand from a friend to pay off everything.

towing my car to the shop was 200 (far)
shipping the trans was 175 round trip
taking out the trans, holding the car during down time and putting the trans back in was 500
then my whole rebuild cost 2200.

do your self a favor and have that money tucked away for this type of emergency.

good luck bro

 

Get BGII... it's smooth and stays smooth. Stock clutch probably isnt helping any but definately something to keep in mind.^^

 

i think its my clutch or possibly a warped flywheel.. It started doing it from the time i raced a Z06 from a dig and the clutch slipped in 1st and 2nd

 

yeah! Try Switching it to BGII, i had problem getting out of 4th sometimes but after putting in the BGII my trans shift like butter!

Kee1pride: thanks for the tips! will start saving up incase i have to come out with 4K just for the trans!

 

Anymore suggestions?

 

i would try to adjust the clutch pedal a little higher maybe you warped your flywheel and clutch also bleed the clutch system my car was never touched brand new and it had air in the system this helped me a lot !
but first adjust your clutch how far up does it look compared to the brake pedal?

 

what about your shifter bushing (just a thought)....the stock ones are crappy

 

also i used to have bgII syncroshift in my gearbox and yes it became very smooth bu the problem was when i went racing the gearbox felt very notchy so i made a searched and found out that bgII has a weight of 75w-80 and my owners manual says to use 75w-85 or 75w-90 gl4 so i changed my oil to motul gl-4 75w-90 and know my gearbox when cold is very notchy but when racing my car it doesnt become notchy as before maybe its cause the oil is thicker so!

 

Replace the clutch. If it was slipping in 1st and 2nd then you slipped it all the way through the gears. You probably glazed the poop out of the flywheel.



thisxguy: replacing the bushings would help the feel of shifting but they would bind in every gear if they were bad, not just the 3 to 4.