April 21, 200421 yr Well I'm pretty sure the 5-speed in my legacy finally took a dump the other day. Ever since I bought it, it had the fairly common 2nd gear syncro grind that's associated with the early legacy 5-speeds. Well untill sunday when it finally decited that it would not go into 2nd at all. The syncro will engage enough that it will grind when i release the clutch but It will not slip into gear. Every other gear is just fine so I don't suspect that it's a linkage issue. Anyway I guess that I'll be replacing it with a used one. Now dose anyone remember which year they made the changes to the 5-speed to elimate this problem?
April 21, 200421 yr Weak main bearings were irridicated from 1991. The shift from 2nd to 3rd is slow and baulky on all Subes. Even my 2000 Imp!
April 21, 200421 yr If you're tight for money I would try living with it. Just wind it out in first and jump to third. It does suck to not have 2nd though. Better would be to lose 1st or third.
April 21, 200421 yr Well I'm pretty sure the 5-speed in my legacy finally took a dump the other day. Ever since I bought it, it had the fairly common 2nd gear syncro grind that's associated with the early legacy 5-speeds. Well untill sunday when it finally decited that it would not go into 2nd at all. The syncro will engage enough that it will grind when i release the clutch but It will not slip into gear. Every other gear is just fine so I don't suspect that it's a linkage issue. Anyway I guess that I'll be replacing it with a used one. Now dose anyone remember which year they made the changes to the 5-speed to elimate this problem? Will it pop in if you double-clutch?
April 22, 200421 yr Author It will not pop in if I I double clutch. It won't even pop in if I'm just sitting with the engine turned off. The running 1st to near redline and dropping it into 3rd isn't a really good option with a legacy, the clutch will spin quite a bit and there isn't much left to the one I have.
April 23, 200421 yr Author Well somehow it magicaly fixed itself after a long blast up the freeway tonight. :-\
April 23, 200421 yr God I love that! The rod bearings in my S-10 aren't magically fixing themselves, though. So I bought a Tacoma.
April 24, 200421 yr Interesting...I just ran 75 to 100 mph for 3.5 hrs non-stop and my clutch/linkage feels better than ever...hope its not a precursor to death.
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