I hope this question is not going to cost me alot of money. But anyway.. once in a while I can not get the car into first gear on the first attempt. I try to but it will not go in. But then if I let out the clutch, (followed by a werid noise) and put it in again, I can put the car in 1st gear no problem. She only does this about 40% of the time. What's wrong??

Mike
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'86 na
no mods

 

syncros most likely. Eventually they all need a little minor trans work.

 

I disagree, I'd say more likely it's the pilot bearing. Syncro, IMHO, would be more if he got grinding on an up/downshift, not just getting the car into gear.

Still gotta drop the tranny to change it though.

PaulC

 

Are you losing fluid?

 

I'd start by changing to synthetic gear oil. How many pieces of gears & syncros were in the old oil?