3rd gear grinds!

[1slowdsm]

Okay, I FINALLY got my car back and I guess it was the pivot ball that was keeping the clutch from disengaging. So now that I have that problem taken care of I have yet ANOTHER problem to solve and I need some help on this one as I know nothing about this.
Everything I try to downshift into 3rd gear I get nothing by grinding noise. Once I leave 3rd gear, there is no coming back to it at all unless I go to a complete stop and start all over again. Even with the clutch pressed in ALL the way and the shifter ALL the way in 3rd gear. I emailed the guy who sent me the tranny (TRE) and am asking him the same question. In the mean time I'm hoping to get some information from you guys here so I can get this problem solved. I dont want to end up screwing up my 3rd gear before the tranny is even broken in. Which brings me to ask: How long should I drive to break in the tranny? But back to the 3rd gear thing. Is it the 3rd gear inside the tranny that's messed up or could it possibly be the shifter cables? If anything, I want to avoid taking off the tranny and having to send it back to TRE to have it re-rebuilt and sent back to me.

[Kracka]

Sounds like you'll be sending it back to me. If 1,2,4,5, and R are all engaging properly that should eliminate it being the cables. If it is a faulty tranny make sure TRE pays for the shipping both ways...good luck getting it back before the snow flies next fall!

BTW, everytime you grind 3rd gear you're rounding off the teeth.

[TheBlizzard]

If third gear is the only one grinding then I would just skip that gear until you get it fixed if you need to drive the car. Other than that Chris is right, good luck getting that thing back from TRE.

CRAIG

[1slowdsm]

What? Damn, I've already had enough fricken problems with the car. Now I have to send it back to them....argh! This really sucks. Why would it take so long for them to send the tranny back? It only took the guy two days to build it and about a week to get here. I dont get it. :confused:

[Kracka]

TRE has notoriously bad/slow customer service. It took me 3-4 months to get a turbo I ordered from him (I paid for it right away and was told they were in stock and ready to ship). Consider yourself very lucky getting your tranny built in 2 days.

[unreal808]

My mom told me that if you don’t have anything good to say than don’t say anything .

So, I shouldn’t say anything about TRE , outher than, Any one who takes on rebuilding a notoriously weak transaxle for a living has a hard life.

[1slowdsm]

Then I must've ordered it at the right time when they werent busy or something, that's why I got it quicker than usual..haha. I'm e-mailing the guy right now and he think it might be clutch related or related to the shifter cables. The only time I can't get into third is from downshifting, but if I downshift to 2nd and then to 3rd, its fine. I'm just scared of going to the track and grinding on 3rd if I shift quickly to it. If that happens, it wont be long till I need a new 3rd gear. And if I cant use 3rd gear at the tracks, then it was a waste of money for everything I bought for the car to race at the track...bummer.

*Edit*The guy read my post and he isnt with TRE. I wonder how I got his e-mail from the site. That's why for the past month and a half I thought he was part of TRE. Now, another problem to solve...where the heck did I get his e-mail from that made me think he was with TRE.

[Kracka]

So you sent your tranny to be rebuilt by some unknown guy?

[A//// Guy]

Well how did you pay for it?? You should have recieved a bill from "TRE" and not a single person....

This is strange...

[1slowdsm]

I had some guy (who I thought was with TRE) rebuilt a stock tranny for me and I payed in PayPal (which I thought was strange for a company like TRE also). I still dont know how I got his e-mail. The only sites I remember looking at were ShepRacing and TRE for transmissions. So pretty much I did have get my new tranny from some unknown guy. Do you guys think that my adjusting the clutch pedal a little would help with this problem? I still dont get how it could Not downshift into 3rd, but upshift into 3rd fine. I'm not any smart with transmissions also, so I know VERY little.