gearshift linkage rebuild makes for a new car again

[mr.utility at highstream.net (David Utley)]

Quoting Drew <drew@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>:

> On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:24, David Utley wrote:
> > Have you ever tried the Redline MTL in that tranny?  It may help, it helped
> 
> > greatly with two different trannys' 2nd gear crunching, esp. when cold...
> 
> I must confess I have not.  Given that the gearbox has something greater
> than 450,000km (and less than 600,000km) I likely shouldn't complain too
> much - especially as over 150,000km of that came from abuse at my own
> hand (and sometimes poorly coordinated left foot... :) )
> 
> Drew
> 
It's not cheap, at about 13.00 a quart (2 quarts needed).  If you choose to 
use it, if you have any leaks at all, now would be the time...  The drive 
flange seals are often bad...  Anyway, that would be my suggestion to keep the 
thing alive...

HTH


David Utley
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