Crossgate cable adjustment. When you can't get into 1st, lift the stick as if for reverse and move it over to the left a little more. It'll notch strait in if this is the problem (almost never internal problems, just crossgate adjustment) Martin funkstuf wrote: >I have a very strange problem with my 5 speed transmission. >On a HOT day if I'm idling around town and doing stop and go The >transmission begins to GRIND when going into 1st or 2nd. Sometimes it >helps to put in 4th or 5th first and sometimes not. Sometimes I have >to shut the engine off and then put it in first. It's like the >synchro doesn't work. If I go out and drive down the road for awhile >it will then work fine again. It only happens on hot days. It >doesn't do it in the winter around town. The gears work fine it >simply doesn't like first and second. What might cause this? I know >nothing about transmissions. >Dale Funk >4984 >941 > > > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/