3rd gear, i think shes going slowly Options

[TGC-Komodo]

right here! me want me want!

thanks for the compliment


and no i dont care if im 100 and my bones are brittal i will never drive an auto.....if i cant shift cause my hip will break then....ill do it the paddle way

Canadian Part # is: 10953509
American Part # is: 12377916

lol You'd be one hot granny if you are still driving manual--or paddle shifters. hahah

[TGC-Komodo]

Here's what you are looking for if you go with the Friction Modified Synchromesh route.

It may be semi-synthetic but it works miracles.
It's like having your gearbox made of butter and shifting with a knife!!!!!1111one
Just go to any GM related dealership.

This post has been edited by TGC-Komodo: Feb 28, 2008 - 2:19 PM

[speedfeen]

no thanks! il go to my parts guy he can get me everything cheaper than any place around here....


so you said you used 4 quarts? ill read through my haines book how much to put in. I dont use anything else, instead of gear lube i use this as a complete substitute?


bahahaha a hot granny....u crack me up!

feen

[DEATH]

He has an e-153 Tranny which is a little bigger and probably holds more fluid. You just fill it till it comes out of the side plug on a level surface. Intend to buy an extra quart just in case.

[Rayme]

I said 4 quart..cause I dont remember how much fluid the transmission take.

I had a 1990 celica (basicly same transmission and engine) and I didn't mix the oil, all there was in the transmission was that GM synchromesh stuff, and for the love of god, I couldn't get my 2nd gear to gring at all (it did take a couple days for the oil to "sink in" for whatever reason), and that car had it from like 160 000 KM to 260 000 KM, and when I sold it was was shifting like the first day I owned it! That was a 16 years old car at the time.

So what I'm saying, is either toyota or GM makes a hella product !

no thanks! il go to my parts guy he can get me everything cheaper than any place around here....


so you said you used 4 quarts? ill read through my haines book how much to put in. I dont use anything else, instead of gear lube i use this as a complete substitute?


bahahaha a hot granny....u crack me up!

feen

This post has been edited by Rayme: Feb 28, 2008 - 4:58 PM

[speedfeen]

wouldnt it be better to go by the specs in the haines manual?

[Rayme]

Go buy the spec for the amount in liters yes.

edit : damn your replied quick lol

wouldnt it be better to go by the specs in the haines manual?

This post has been edited by Rayme: Feb 28, 2008 - 4:59 PM

[alltracman78]

Well we have had the car since i joined so less than one month and we are still trying to get everything else right so tranny fluid wasnt the first thing, and the higher i shift the worse the grinding gets, if i go low then it wont :S works weird, and it terrible when down shifting so i now entirely skip 3rd gear and brake a little bit more.....i am almost apt to not to even use 3rd gear the sound drives me crazy!

Synchromesh might help, you'll probably need more of it, not less in this case [just an educated guess]. Less thick oil isn't going to kill your gears right away, it's a long term thing [could be 100,000 miles or more], so it's not the end of the world if you end up using just the synchromesh.

When you downshift blip the gas a bit right before you put it in gear, to help match engine speed and input shaft speed.

not to be a suck hole but i love this site, its the first place that im actually taken seriously being a woman in the trade and on the site! AND that im not degraded and if i say something wrong i dont get completely flamed...Appreciate that!

This and Celicatech tend to be pretty good like that, and Alltrac.net to some extent unlike most forums on the web....

...
What he has wrong is that it's not just "GM Synchromesh" that we use to resolve [not fix] the issue. It's GM Synchromesh Manual Transmission Fluid: Friction Modified. It's much better than ordinary GM Synchromesh Manual Transmission Fluid.
I'm not sure about 6GCs but on the 3G TL, the GM Syncromesh:FM works miracles.
It's not that expensive either. Not even 14 dollars Canadian. The regular Synchromesh is just about 11 or so.

I'd never heard of this particular type, good to know.

What?! 4 quart's?
I'm reading some ppl using 3, my buddy's TL using 2.3 quarts, and now you're using 4? Ah I hope my manual tells me how much I'll need.
Btw you used completely the GM fluid, you didn't mix with regular like the other member did?

Different transmissions take different amounts of oil.....

wouldnt it be better to go by the specs in the haines manual?

Haynes is usually junk IMO.
If you can, get the Toyota factory manual[s].
They are MUCH MUCH better.
If you're a tech by trade you should definitely appreciate this, especially the wiring manual. It alone is worth the price of all the books IMO.

[laff09]

right here! me want me want!

thanks for the compliment


and no i dont care if im 100 and my bones are brittal i will never drive an auto.....if i cant shift cause my hip will break then....ill do it the paddle way

+1 for paddle shifting the groceries home in a minivan. lol

[Ugglan]

speedfeen: did you change your tranny fliud? what did you use, did you get rid of the grinding?

i have the same problem and thinking about changing the fluids but I'm not sure what to use, just synchromech or mix it...

[_mikeE]

Ugghhh im pretty pissed...I just had my tranny fluid changed, but instead i used pennzoil synthetic, and my tranny was very smooth and working perfect for only one day--the next day it went right back to normal....sigh...what do you guys think might be the problem...synchros? or that synthetic is just too thin and i should've used the synchromesh.