manual transmission issues.

[Red2Liter]

My transmission has improved as I've put miles on the car. I'm at about 6000 miles and the transmission is as smooth as most cars I've owned except for my Hondas. For normal highway driving, I frequently skip gears; going from 3rd to 6th when I'm accelerating to 55 mph traffic. The 6th to 3rd down shift is also nicely spaced when braking for a tight corner. After all, 3rd is good for nearly 80 mph and the lower gear offers a lot of flexibility in controlling entering speed and exit speed.

[Marcoscrdo]

Only problems i have is if im trying to accelerate between gears sometimes at high speed seems like the gear shifting gets "stuck" and force needs to be put into it. Is that normal?

[wparsons]

High vehicle speeds, or really fast shifts?

[usptwins]

Accelerate between gears?

[Eurasianman]

Anyone experience an issue where you go WOT in 3rd or 4th gear and then shift into 6th gear? The issue being that when you try to go into 6th gear, it grinds a bit. In my previous vehicles, I do not ever recall having an issue skipping gears and hearing it grind at the same time. I know part of the solution is to not skip gears, but I was just curious as to if anyone else had had this issue.

[OrbitalEllipses]

Originally Posted by Eurasianman

Anyone experience an issue where you go WOT in 3rd or 4th gear and then shift into 6th gear? The issue being that when you try to go into 6th gear, it grinds a bit. In my previous vehicles, I do not ever recall having an issue skipping gears and hearing it grind at the same time. I know part of the solution is to not skip gears, but I was just curious as to if anyone else had had this issue.

Yes. Top of 3rd to 6th will grind almost nearly every time for me. I just stopped doing it.

[StormTrooper]

Only happens to me if you shift it fast...if your skipping you're not in a hurry to be in 6th so just slow shift.

Anyone else have my issue with 3rd? The gate seems odd compared to the other gears on upshift but not downshift

[Gords_zenith]

Originally Posted by Eurasianman

Anyone experience an issue where you go WOT in 3rd or 4th gear and then shift into 6th gear? The issue being that when you try to go into 6th gear, it grinds a bit. In my previous vehicles, I do not ever recall having an issue skipping gears and hearing it grind at the same time. I know part of the solution is to not skip gears, but I was just curious as to if anyone else had had this issue.

This was/is discussed in another thread, and the concensus was that skip shifting is hard on the syncros because of the speed differential between the input and output shafts. The transmission is designed to go 1-2-3-4-5-6. however, in saying that you can try keeping your foot on the clutch while shifting to 5th than 6th before releasing as this will help match the speeds of the shafts so that there less force thus wear and tear on 6th. Hope this helps.

[Eurasianman]

Originally Posted by Gords_zenith

This was/is discussed in another thread, and the concensus was that skip shifting is hard on the syncros because of the speed differential between the input and output shafts. The transmission is designed to go 1-2-3-4-5-6. however, in saying that you can try keeping your foot on the clutch while shifting to 5th than 6th before releasing as this will help match the speeds of the shafts so that there less force thus wear and tear on 6th. Hope this helps.

Yea.... I try to remind myself just shift into 4th, 5th, and 6th. But sometimes, it's just a bit obnoxious

[Gords_zenith]

Originally Posted by Eurasianman

Yea.... I try to remind myself just shift into 4th, 5th, and 6th. But sometimes, it's just a bit obnoxious

I hear ya, I do the same, but I was only suggesting that instead of releasing the clutch between each gear, just row the gears with the clutch in until you get to the gear you want, bump the rpm and release the clutch. Voila, skip shifting without the harm to your syncros.

[Eurasianman]

Originally Posted by Gords_zenith

I hear ya, I do the same, but I was only suggesting that instead of releasing the clutch between each gear, just row the gears with the clutch in until you get to the gear you want, bump the rpm and release the clutch. Voila, skip shifting without the harm to your syncros.

Yea, I do that every now and then as well. Just tedious I just need to quit flooring it in 2nd and 3rd