SpecVSpeed

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So this morning I am heading off to work, its about 7 am and Ive only driven a couple blocks so my car is still relatively cold. I pull up to a stoplight, wait for the green and then push in the clutch and put her in first (at least thats what I thought) As I start to take my hand off the shifter, while letting out the clutch and giving her a little gas, to my amazement the shifter pops out and whacks my hand. Its like my baby gave me b*tch smack. After a couple seconds of pondering what I had done to **** off my car, I once again depressed the clutch, put it in first and then actually started to move.
I know that our tranny has triple synchros on 1st and 2nd, could it be that the car just wasnt warmed up all the way? I like the feel of our transmission very much, it is very tight and precise.....nothing like this had ever happened before. Sometimes when I shift.....especially lower gears I feel like I can feel each and every synchro working....like while putting it into first it kind of slides into gears in three very fast consecutive jumps. I dont know if I am accurately describing it here.....just wondering if anyone here has had a similar experience.
On my old car I swapped the tranny fluid for the redline MT90.....and the results were amazing....much smoother and fluid like shifting. I have read countless posts about people saying to stick with stock fluids, or go with Redline, some people say redline is crap and it will kill the synchros so go with GM synchromesh. Just wondering if anyone has a definitive answer on an excellent tranny fluid that will improve shifts and protect equally if not better than the stock fluid. Thanks for any and all input.

evodave

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use GM synchroshift

00R101

You did not put the car all the way into 1st. When you released the clutch it popped out. No big deal. Be a little more deliberate when the car is cold. I bet you were not paying a lot of attention to the car when it happened, right?

feldguy

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I had my tranny rebuilt twice, the first it was good. The second time it came out quite different. I was worried the job was done poorly, until I changed to BG synromesh from lancershop.com. Less succeptable to heat change, shifts like butter. Really wild how much better it is now.

GREDDY

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I experienced this when my car was in the "break in" period. It happened twice and never again.

Funky

If the gear isn't fully engaged, it should pop out. That way it won't chew the teeth apart.

ru4real

Gears are always meshed, it's the synchros that couple and uncouple them to the input shaft. The dogs on the synchros are what get worn.

nine4surfah

i agree with ru4real. I had an old toyota pickup that would slip out of 2nd gear all the time. I went to 3 different mechanics and the y all told me that my synchos were going bad. So i sold the truck.

4-BNGR

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GEt a $90 dollar shift kit and SLAm those gears into place