[1BADDSM]

I remember the first DSM i Rode in was like 5 years ago in my friends 94 eclipse and I made fun of him for grinding gears... boy do i feel like an asshole

LOL, the best is when you put it in reverse leaving somewhere and you think it's in gear, let off the clutch and it pops out/grinds....

Yea, Team Rip is the king of DSM trannies. They rebuild them better than new (literally, they will "rebuild" a brand new tranny if you want them to ) and I'm sure they can get you any upgrade part you could need.

http://www.teamrip.com

With hearing this "it only grinds after I've been driving it for like 5-10 mins... " I have a pretty good feeling your synchros are tired, but this oil should relieve it a little and buy you some more time.

~jm

 

[1BADDSM]

friggin dsm trannies....

Mine keeps it simple and grinds second almost always, and I can feel a little in third. Anyway... good luck.

On a similiar side note I just bought some 5 packs of these insanely strong magnets (1/8" thick, 1" round, can pick up 30#s) and have atached them to all my drain plugs, I'm eager to see if it actually helped. In 6k miles my X-fer case oil went from pink to a nasty looking color laced with metal.

~jm

 

[1BADDSM]

You did get this overheating problem fixed right? 1/2 way is good, but full. :-o

While it is close to the motor, it isn't affected much by the motors heat. Most of that is in the cylinder head of the motor. I'm sure this could kill the motor oil and coolant, but inorder for oil to break down it has to hit ~400 degrees. While I've never tried this, I'm sure after driving for hours one should be able to grab onto the manual tranny and be able to keep your hand there.

If you don't trust a product like synchromesh (a rare few have theorized that it speeds up synchro wear) maybe try a synthetic like Redline 75w90. ( www.autoil.com ) I forget now what it protects like, but it seems like it is around 300 level protection with the 75w90 viscosity and better than that for cold temperature properties. Only way it isn't better than your current gear oil is the price.

No problem, just here to help....

~jm

 

[1BADDSM]

I'm not following you here. There is no correlation between the motor being hot and your gear oil breaking down. Manual transmissions run very cool, hence they last a long time. Auto trannies have heat problems, but not manual. Auto trannies heat problems don't do anything with motor temperatures either, just having to shift frequently causes this and kills their life.

Yea GM synchromesh is good as well, but Lucas, I wouldn't do that.... :-/ Anything that incorporates the words "stop leak" in it's description is a no, no IMO.

As far as the linkages, sure they could be off, but might just as well start with the easy stuff and work our way to the harder more complicated things. Really your killing your tranny with that thick of a oil, it just takes a while to coat everything while cold. It's about the same thing as not having anything at all (ok, exagerating) when really cold as it's pretty much grease. Thinner is better, but using pure ATF would eventually eat the synchros so it has to be synethetic mix for trannies.

~jm

 

[1BADDSM]

btw- the only place I know who sells this is RRE:
http://www.roadraceengineering.com/eclfluids.htm

~jm

 

[1BADDSM]

Our cars are known to be dificult going into second gear. Now there isn't a real fix without having the tranny rebuilt and built up better than new, but most of us here enjoy a light viscosity oil for this. You went the wrong way, you want thinner oil. Try BG Synchroshift or hmm... (GM..?) I know there is another as well, anyway. This oil has a viscosity of about ATF yet it still protects quite well. I could hardly believe the difference when I went from 80w90 to bg, so your difference should be just insane.

~jm