Sounds very similar to mine (non-OD) and many others. Sometimes its ok
and sometimes its not. See Nelson's site in the Technical section
regarding clutch problems. http://www.buckeyetriumphs.org/index.htm
Jay Welch, Abington MA
1971 TR6 project
1973 TR6 driver - wanting to "Drive it Hard"
Member "Cape Cod British Car Club" @
http://clubs.hemmings.com/capecodbritish/
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 05:48:31 -0800 (PST) michael lunsford
<mblunsfordsr@yahoo.com> writes:
> Listers,
>
> About 6,000 miles ago I rebuilt my transmission (actually I held the
> wrenches while Alan Moskowitz did the intellectual part-thanks
> Alan). The rebuild involved replacing the bearings, seals (I didn't
> touch the OD, it works great) and new synchros. In an effort to "be
> all that I could be" (at least transmission wise) I put Red Line
> Synthetic MT oil in the tranny (1970 A type OD). Within the past
> 1,000 miles I have noticed an increasing difficulty in shifting
> through the gate from 1st-2nd to 3rd-4th as well as to reverse from
> 1-2. Originally the difficulty seemed to increase as the
> transmission warmed up however now this shift is difficult all of
> the time. Thinking it might be the synthetic trans oil I changed
> back to the regular 85-90 weight oil which initially seemed to
> improve things however I am now back to square one with the same
> problem. I have changed the oil twice in an effort to eleminate
> residual synthetic oil in the OD unit but the problem persists. I
> obviou!
> sly need to resolve this problem before I wear out/break something
> in the tranny. Any suggestions?
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