Sgt. Spuds

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Alright, my tranny works perfectly besides no third gear. For the past year or so its been slowly going out. It started out just popping out every once and a while, usually on highway exit ramps, when I was off the throttle or on it very light. It eventually grew worse, and started grinding going into gear on 5 of every 10 2-3 shifts just estimated. Progressively got worse, but it always went in and stayed in if I was WOT, never gave me a fuss at all when racing, just slow putting around, even would stay in 100% of the time if I didn't let off the gas 100% when I shifted... I usually avoided 3rd towards the end, and one day accelerating at ~75% throttle on the express way, hit third and it ground pretty violently, and wouldn't go into gear. Now it won't go into third at all..

So what parts should I buy, and where should I get them? I'm on an extremely tight budget, and just want factory replacements, unless aftermarket is just a few bucks more. I'm also getting a steel shift fork off a friend whose dads gonna do the work, he wants 20 for the fork and 300 for the labor.

Mike44138

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Steel 3-4 shift fork, probably a new 3rd driven gear but you wont know until you're in it, replacement snap rings, possibly input shaft shims. Save some money and get yourself a whole synchro rebuild kit. Either do em all or at least do the ones you're going to have to take apart to get to 3rd. I don't think you'll need to reshim, but not sure. Anyone know about that?

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Sgt. Spuds

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**** hit the fan last night. On my way home it started making all sorts of nasty noses, clunking and banging around, grinding, just nasty all around... I got video of it, will post later.