You need to bleed your clutch slave, that's why you are not engaging
correctly, it's not your trans.
-----Original Message-----
From: DemonTSi@aol.com <DemonTSi@aol.com>
To: Datsun-Roadsters@autox.team.net <Datsun-Roadsters@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 12:20 AM
Subject: Life is bad (tranny woes)...
>I bought my current 1600 with a bad first gear, with the assumption that I
>could just drive it until I have the time to swap the tranny from the parts
>roadster in. So I've been driving the thing for the past ~2 months with
just
>2-4th gears, and everything's been fine...till today! My symptoms:
>
>- putting tranny into 2nd or R will elicit a very nice grinding of gears.
>- I can put it into either 2nd or R, if I slam it in quick and hard (still
a
>little grinding, but not as bad).
>- sometimes when I depress the cluch and put it into R, the car will move
>even with the clutch fully depressed.
>- I am now forced to try and rev match the engine before putting it into
2nd,
>and that sometimes results in a very smooth engagement (but not always).
>
>I do not know much about trannies at all, so all I can assume is that I've
>gotta have at least a bad 2nd gear syncro, and maybe some forks are out of
>whack...? The car is still drivable, but at this rate, those gears are
>probably not going to last too long if I have to keep on grinding them...
>
>Van
>- http://members.xoom.com/BADROC
>
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