T5 issue

[Insayne]

Well I didn't my 3.73 swap Sunday. Everything went well. E and a friend tackled the diff and my brother tore out the extension housing to put in the speedo gears. So after I get it back together it's hard to get it inti first second and reverse third feels a little clunky of course I gave third gear whine but that was there before now when deceling to a red light or stop and I go to put it in first I get a lot of synchro whine. Now I checked fluid yesterday and my brother had the tranny over filled by about a half quart. It seemed to help with second gear but first and reverse are still very stiff. My brother also had a hard time with the shift detent ball and spring while re assembling the top half of the tranny. Could the shift selector mechanism be not fully engaged? Or I dunno what? It wasn't this way before gears.

 

[Insayne]

Checked fluid tranny was a little over filled. Seems almost normal when the car is fully warmed up. Any info guys?

 

[last5.0steve]

a few things to check. did you use the correct trany fluid? Did he line up the shift rods correctly? sometimes the damper bushing falls out--the bushing that the shifter sits in were it goes into the block that holds the detent spring and check ball?
If you took the trany out of the car to do this then you may need to adjust you clutch, an easy quick check is see if it shifts easy with out the engine running if it does then you need to adjust your clutch. Hope I can help. good luck..

 

[Insayne]

We did it with the tranny in. I pulled the shifter and looked at it last night it looks like the ball spring and roll pin are fine. I did the automatic clutch adjustment and no avail.

 

[last5.0steve]

Is the bushing that the shifter sits in there, and what type of fluid did you put in it

 

[Insayne]

Yeah the bushing is in and it was dex merc abd a Lucas additive