Transmission ?????????

[dirtyred11]

Ok guys i have a ?n, ok i was driving this car i just got and i was driving it normal to like 2k since i just got it and havent went throught it yet. So I dumped the clutch one day and it did what i expected and put a smile on my face. So now comes my ?n, I was driving down the road doing about 60 and i was like in 4th i think and i sorta tapd it a lil to see what it was doing and it acted like it had a lil hesitation like it had overdrive or something. the other GT i had didn't do that. When i steped on it the response was right then it just picked up speed and went. It scared me so bad in the new car that i didn't go through with the pulll and got out of it. It sounds like when u stomp an auto and it hesitates and then comes in hard all of a sudden, this is how it felt in my trans and its a 5 speed with gears. Not sure which ones but at least 3 55s or 3 73s. So did i do right cuz something is wrong wiith my trans or is it supposed to do this? The guy i got it from says it has a tremek 5 speed or whatever the upgraded trans is. It does shift really smooth though with no grinds and has a short throw shifter. The motor is mostly stock. ANY HELP AND COMMENTS WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANKS IN ADVANCE.

 

[dirtyred11]

Ok guys I put sme thought into it and cld it b I need a new clutch? I noticed dat I basically hav to floor da clutch peddle for it to engage and it kinda smelld 2day wen I was playing with it. And could the clutch be slipping so bad it was doing wt I was taking bout earlier like wen I steppd on it???

 

[CC'S95GT]

Do you still have the stock quadrant?
If so put your foot under the pedal and lift. If there is any life left in the clutch you'll hear a click or 2 and get a little more time out of your clutch.

 

[ttocs]

if the clutch was slipping the rpms would go up but the speedo would not. Didn't sound like that was the case here but dunno as it seemed a little hard to read and put together for me.

 

[MustangChris]

did the RPMs climb before the response? did it smell like burning brake pads afterwards?

 

[dirtyred11]

I rent notice the rpms cuz like I said the noise scared me so I gt out of it and yea it did smell like burning brake pads

 

[Musturd]

From the sounds of thing a new clutch is in your near future. I don't understand a lot of the grammar used in your posts but from what I've been able to get out of your posts it's a bad clutch I remember seeing my tach jump on the highway .

 

[dirtyred11]

Sorry for the grammar, but u guys don't think its anything wrong with the transmission do you because it shifts smoothly in every gear no grinds or anything.

 

[RichV]

An old trick to check clutch:

Drive front wheels to a curb or chalk them.
Put trans in 5th.
Let clutch/throttle out like you're taking off in 1st.
Engine should stall immediately, if the clutch is slipping it will let the engine run for a little bit.

 

[dirtyred11]

Ok imma try this trick 2ma and im also thinking about changing those gaskets where the headers meet the pipes that run the exhaust because it also sounds like a really loud exhaust leak sort of when i step on the gas hard. I don't know though but imma try it and see if it helps.