Tranny Going Out?

[1slowdsm]

My tranny is starting to grind in first gear when I'm a stoplight. It feels like its in gear and when I let off the clutch and add some gas and all it does is grind and pops back out of gear. So then I either have to hold up traffic and get honked at while I wait for the gear to stop spinning or I force it in and go. Its weird, because the clutch is pressed in all the way and it still grinds going in sometimes. Anyone have any ideas on whats wrong? Is my tranny going out? How much could I get a tranny for these days? I guess this winter I'll be doing nothing but maintenance and repairs on my car.

One more thing to add. When I'm at park, I can hear this weird scraping type sound coming from the bottom of the tranny. Thats only when I let my foot off the clutch. When the clutch is pressed in, the sound goes away.

[DSMKPB]

Sometimes on my car it feels like it went into first gear but it does the same thing you are talking about. What I do when I know it didn't go in is just push it into gear while slowly letting out the clutch till you can feel it pop into gear, then jsut wait for the light to turn green:) Hopefully thats all it is.

But before you do anything major i'd try putting new tranny fluid in.

[LightningGSX]

Sounds like the clutch to me.Will it go into first easy with the engine turned off?

[A//// Guy]

A bad clutch wouldnt make 1st gear pop out back into nuetral.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Try adjusting the cables, otherwise look into getting a new 1st gear or tranny.

[john]

I would guess the gear also. I do not see the clutch being the problem. Good luck on the tranny search.

[LightningGSX]

I guess I should've read his post slower.It does sound like tranny problems, but if the car is stopped, clutch pedal down and it grinds when shifting into first, thats an obvious clutch problem.

[enasnitsi]

Its either your clutch or your first gear synchro's. Mine was doing this because a main bearing on the input shaft went out so the gears were out of alignment but if your synchros are bad it will make it hard to shift into gear and it won't stay in gear like it is supposed to. I ended up just rebuilding my tranny myself and its been great ever since so if you need help just let me know. It ended up being not as hard as I thought it was just a lot of parts. Good Luck!

[1slowdsm]

I'll start by checking the tranny fluid and see if its still grinding today. Get back to you guys later...

[caustad]

Try bleeding the clutch out too. 1st synchros can grind while other gears don't and a clutch bleed sometimes solves the problem. Just another thought.