3rd gear, i think shes going slowly Options

[speedfeen]

well i am mechanically inclined BUT remember i do autobody not mechanical lol





SO heres the story


Your driving, your going faster than 50km/h and u go to shift into 3rd and it grinds bad.....you do it when your going slower it doesnt do that....and well lets just say that more than once i go to ds into 3rd and it doesnt wanna go in.......


syncro? transmission? i know its easier to guess at what it is instead of seeing it but what do you guys think it is? just because it will do it sometimes and not other times im thinkin it may be the syncro....


ideas..

[speedfeen]

Well we have had the car since i joined so less than one month and we are still trying to get everything else right so tranny fluid wasnt the first thing, and the higher i shift the worse the grinding gets, if i go low then it wont :S works weird, and it terrible when down shifting so i now entirely skip 3rd gear and brake a little bit more.....i am almost apt to not to even use 3rd gear the sound drives me crazy!

and yea dont mind putting some money into it of course till i get my fd lmao then its an arguement of what car the money goes to

i cant wait! lol


and thanks for the pic of the syncromesh!


My .02
not to be a suck hole but i love this site, its the first place that im actually taken seriously being a woman in the trade and on the site! AND that im not degraded and if i say something wrong i dont get completely flamed...Appreciate that!

[alltracman78]

Well we have had the car since i joined so less than one month and we are still trying to get everything else right so tranny fluid wasnt the first thing, and the higher i shift the worse the grinding gets, if i go low then it wont :S works weird, and it terrible when down shifting so i now entirely skip 3rd gear and brake a little bit more.....i am almost apt to not to even use 3rd gear the sound drives me crazy!

Synchromesh might help, you'll probably need more of it, not less in this case [just an educated guess]. Less thick oil isn't going to kill your gears right away, it's a long term thing [could be 100,000 miles or more], so it's not the end of the world if you end up using just the synchromesh.

When you downshift blip the gas a bit right before you put it in gear, to help match engine speed and input shaft speed.

not to be a suck hole but i love this site, its the first place that im actually taken seriously being a woman in the trade and on the site! AND that im not degraded and if i say something wrong i dont get completely flamed...Appreciate that!

This and Celicatech tend to be pretty good like that, and Alltrac.net to some extent unlike most forums on the web....

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What he has wrong is that it's not just "GM Synchromesh" that we use to resolve [not fix] the issue. It's GM Synchromesh Manual Transmission Fluid: Friction Modified. It's much better than ordinary GM Synchromesh Manual Transmission Fluid.
I'm not sure about 6GCs but on the 3G TL, the GM Syncromesh:FM works miracles.
It's not that expensive either. Not even 14 dollars Canadian. The regular Synchromesh is just about 11 or so.

I'd never heard of this particular type, good to know.

What?! 4 quart's?
I'm reading some ppl using 3, my buddy's TL using 2.3 quarts, and now you're using 4? Ah I hope my manual tells me how much I'll need.
Btw you used completely the GM fluid, you didn't mix with regular like the other member did?

Different transmissions take different amounts of oil.....

wouldnt it be better to go by the specs in the haines manual?

Haynes is usually junk IMO.
If you can, get the Toyota factory manual[s].
They are MUCH MUCH better.
If you're a tech by trade you should definitely appreciate this, especially the wiring manual. It alone is worth the price of all the books IMO.