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Your car isnt supposed to go into first easily at all unless you make a nearly full stop.....thats the work of synchros. So when you go to stop, only downshift to 2nd, then press in your clutch and gently let the gear slide into 1st. The gears only line up correctly when your doing like maybe 5 mph or under, due to the synchros that have to line up your gears correctly.

EDIT- Also, my gearbox grinds a little when shifting from 3rd to 4th....so i have a similar situation cuz my car has high mileage and probably needs some new synchros too.

This post has been edited by Silver94CelicaOwner: Jun 7, 2003 - 6:07 PM

my 3rd gear has started doing this yet it only does it ocastionly and its normaly completely fine, I even had it happen when I double clutched, anyone have any idea?

hmm ya i sometimes have problems in 2nd gear. When i decide to downshift into 2nd gear at 40 mph at 4300 rpm's it can tend to grind every once in a while. But in 1st or 3rd i have no problem downshifting. In 1st gear i can downshift when im going 30mph at 5,000 rpms and 1st gear tops out at 35mph. the same with 3rd gear. so why is it that its only 2nd gear that does it for me. The previous owner was a chick. i got the car at 75,000 miles

Its time to rebuild the tranny or replace it.

chanke the tranny oil.
Check the sticky.

yay haha, my dad said to bleed the clutch fluid, and I just did a transmission fluid like 5000km ago.