Here is a complaint we used to hear regularly, especially on hi-performance cars or cars that get driven to ‘hard’ with manual transmissions.
Complaint: Grinds going into 2nd & 3rd Gear anytime above 5000 rpm’s
Upon teardown of the unit, we found 8 synchro teeth broke off of 2nd gear where the sliding hub locks onto the gear and a badly worn clutch disc, pressure plate & flywheel. The pressure plate & flywheel show signs of extreme slippage & being con-caved towards the center of the flywheel. The clutch disc wear did NOT match the wear showing on the flywheel & pressure plate assy., from the looks of it, looks like someone replaced the clutch disc with out replacing the rest of the clutch assy. properly, in order to sell the car. Customer has only owned car for 8 or 9,000 miles and claimed it’s always had a problem since he bought it.
What was my advise? After pricing out American made gears, American made bearings, a small parts kit and a complete new clutch and flywheel assembly my customer practically had heart failure. I was not surprised, it was really expensive, especially the American made gears. FYI: Cheap and poorly made Chinese aftermarket gears can be purchased at pennies on the dollar, and if we installed the cheap gears over the quality gears, my customer would know real fast why cheap gears were not an option at my shop.
With that being said, it is far less expensive and faster to purchase a low mileage used manual transmission from a quality transmission supply company like GotTransmissions.com. And that was my recommendation, which my customer accepted happily. Remember some of the cost was the new clutch and flywheel.
When you sell a customer the correct solution, they appreciate it. If you make the price affordable and guarantee it well, you have the best source of advertising possible, word of mouth. With that in mind, that is the main way GotTransmissions.com has become the leader in the transmission replacement business. 866-320-1182.
