[Spridgets] Motor Oil in the Gear Box

[Edmund Conen]

per Dean Hedin...
>>The first issue is the tendency of the 1st to 2nd shift crunch.  This is >>worse when the tranny is cold and goes away as it warms up.

  This will not help, but...
  On at least two Datsun 510s (Mom's new '72 wagon, and my used '71 sedan) the stock 4-speed trannies did this.  Also my current '91 Toyota truck.  Mom's was so bad you could not shift into 2nd gear in the winter until the tranny warmed up.
  What we ended up doing was putting the transmission in neutral, taking the foot off the clutch pedal and letting the engine idle for a minute or two to get the fluid in the transmission warmed up enough to work.
  The Datsun dealer ended up doing 'something' to the '72 wagon that helped the problem a lot, but wouldn't tell us what.
  It was only a serious problem in cold weather.
 Ed in NC