[nmaier2201]

Mike:

My trans has been behaving like yours for the last couple months. Honestly it sounds like yours is much much worse than mine. I can't get into 1st, 2nd, or reverse when cold. I can however still get into 4th and then shift from there to another gear. No grinding... but LOTS of binding and lots of effort to get into the 2nd gear (aka not 4th) I do not need to use two hands... you a wimp or something? j/k

Now I've bled ml clutch three times, and I keep swapping reservoir fluid on it... no help really

I also swapped the oil in my trans ( 40k on the trans only ) for some Amsoil. The trans fluid helped a lot for the 1st month or two with the hardness of shifting... either I'm getting used to it or it's getting worse again. C66 mentioned that the torque drive has a better viscosity than the ATF Amsoil I put in (which was recommended by Amsoil I might add) so I might try that

Mike: At this point I honestly think my slave is dragging a little when cold and that is effecting getting to gear.... I also think it is starting to damage some of the T56 components such as the synchros, forks, and maybe causing the rails to bind.

PS. On a side note I did swap out my stock shifter bushings with the UUC ones. Good thing I did, both of mine came out with two fingers and had worked almost 80% of the way out.... one of them was crushed to oblivion... the new shifter bushings do help a lot with getting into gear by removing the sloppiness and play of the remote mounted shifter.

I would try all of the above things I did in your effort to fix this... you can't drive a car that takes 5 minutes to get into gear.

As for me I'm going to start putting a parts pile together of a used trans, and new clutch..... Ahhhh what should I buy? :thepot: