Caddi04V

Hey everyone my names Collin. I'm a fairly new V owner I purchased it back in May and couldn't be happier. Unfortunately I'm having a few problems with my V.

1. Second gear doesnt seem to want to go in inless the car is off otherwise it grinds horribley. If I start the car in second it will stay in second. It also shifts thru all other 5 gears well and the clutch feels fine. I believe it is the second gear syncro any other possiblitys?

2. When I'm goin full throttle between 4500-5500 rpm for a split second the car feels like its looses power then keeps climing. If I accelerate only half throttle this problem doesn't occur and the engine sounds great. I purchased the car with 42k and now I'm almost at 50k so I'm thinking I might just need a tune up and maybe some spark plugs.

If anyone has any idea's on what these problems could be?? Thanks Collin

jerrad

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Sounds like your clutch might be slipping a little on the second question.

vmapper

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[QUOTE=Caddi04V;12158301]Hey everyone my names Collin. I'm a fairly new V owner I purchased it back in May and couldn't be happier. Unfortunately I'm having a few problems with my V.

1. Second gear doesnt seem to want to go in inless the car is off otherwise it grinds horribley. If I start the car in second it will stay in second. It also shifts thru all other 5 gears well and the clutch feels fine. I believe it is the second gear syncro any other possiblitys?


Syncros sounds like they are gone.
If the fluid was ever changed... and no additive, or incorrect fluid was put in, They are easily eaten away, they are tiny little pads that are very picky. I had a friend ruin his T-56 having the wrong fluid in it.

Caddi04V

Thank yu both. I defidently gotta go to the the shop soon. I'm thinking about doing a clutch, flywheel, short shifter and some tranny mounts as well while they're down there.

jerrad

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Have them install a remote bleeder set up for the clutch while you're in there. It's cheap and will save you tons of time/cussing.

Caddi04V

Thanks I defidently will do that!

Big Bu Bu

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Collin
Your aware the V has a 1-4 skip shift feature? Has yours been disabled?

jerrad

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Even if it hasn't been disabled the trans wouldn't grind. It just locks out.

adanieljohnson1

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Keep an eye open for other gears starting to act up! Just had a friend whos trani went out and it felt like driving on ice! Had to slam the gears in and once they went in we would get high RPM's but no to slow movement...

Caddi04V

No what exactly is the skip shift?? I'm keepin a eye on all the other gears to. I'm tryin not to drive to much

itsslow98

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sorry if i didnt get the sarcasm but skip shift at certain rpms will force you to go from 1st gear directly to 4th to improve gas mileage. it is only when you take off very slow and shift really early.

Caddi04V

Really?? Thats interesting is that why there is that indicater that kinda looks like >4 under the MPH gauge??

vmapper

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the ONE - FOUR Skip shift, AKA CAGS, aka, Computer Assisted Gear Selection
! (means delete) !CAGS

so what GM ingeneously did was for these cars which were bought for performance not to save fuel, but probably to improve the RATING GM could post for GOV purposes...

the skip shift WILL engage when following conditions are met:
1. you're at 35% throttle or less
2. you're between 24 and 35 km
3. engine coolant temperature is greater than 77 C°

A solenoid installed on the transmission BLOCKS 2nd and 3rd gear forcing you into 4th.
you can unplug the solenoid but then have to deal with service lights.
A resistor, 2.2K would work, red red red red gold, can be used to 'trick' the PCM that the solenoid is connected
or best, using software such as 'THE SUPERIOR' HP tuners...