did the tranny just totally die all of a sudden ??
it wasnt sudden exactly, but I drove cross country from VT-WA towing my worldy possesions in a 4000lb trailer... in order to make it over some of the mtn passes i had to wind it up to 5200 rpm in 1st gear on the highway... beat up on her pretty good. in hindsite, not the brightest idea, but couldnt leave my cherry bmw r65 behind right?
when i got to seattle, the trans was pretty bad.
without room to park a parts rig, time to wait for a MC, and the thing threatening pretty hard to give it up, I rolled the dice on the trans shop. the $2k also included $300 for a new clutch, so $1700, of which $700 was labor, and $1k parts... I dont have the receipt handy and dont remember everything they put in off the top of my head... but i kept the box full of the parts they took out of her, so i can look more closely at what they did, and the state of what they took out.
The grabbiness is in all gears, particularly 1-2-3. I havent dug into a trans before so i dont have a firm grasp on what exactly they may've F-d up.
Does anyone elses trans have a noticeable "grab" halfway getting into gears, or is it smooth and minimal resistance in your hand from Neutral all the way into the fully engaged in-gear point? I mean it DOES shift functionally fine, just annoyingly grabby from what i'm used to. I'm not 100% sure that theres anything of real concern besides pissing me off that its not buttery smooth after I threw a bunch of $ at it.
1987 4runner
165k, reman 22RE 5Speed with 15k
Custom softtop, bedliner, new paint
K/N cold air, Thorley Tri-Y, Flowmaster
IFS, 4" Lift, 4.88s
33x10.5x15 BFG ATs
