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Avatar 05-03-04 06:35 PM

Hard Gear change cold morning?
 
When driving on a cold moring it seems to take about an hour before I can change gears smoothly, I reaaly have to push it into gear up to about fifth. Has anyone come accross this before and know how to fix it?

drago86 05-03-04 06:39 PM

Yup, switch to a thinner gear oil, someone probably put like 120 in there.

beefhole 05-03-04 07:29 PM

It seems to happen when cold out. I don't know what oil is in mine at the moment but I remember it being like that when it was cold.

Turbonut 05-03-04 08:06 PM

Put synthetic (Red Line) in there, it will help quite a bit. Back in '87 Mazda was actually recommending dealers put ATF in the trans because of the hard shifting when cold. Not too unbelievable knowing Mazda!


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