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Apparently, someone had used regular heavy gear oil in the tranny from it's smell and dark brown color. Smelled a bit burnt, too.

I thought it was a bit too good to be true, but hey, I'm not complaining. I also put in one of those manual clutch adjusters and turned it a few times to get a better clutch disengagement: that helped things a bit too (it was barely releasing: the plastic self adjuster piece of crap was smoothed off almost, you could feel the pedal jump as the teeth slid, I would have to lift up on the pedal every few traffic lights).

Mind you, I never actually opened up the t5 to look at the synchros so I'm talking out of my *** in a way, but why else would it be unshiftable?

Also.... voodoo magic, but when I put in the 3.73's, all of a sudden, it became much easier to shift. Maybe the transmittion is possessed. This was, by the way, a recovered ricer stang. The grey lower half that you see was canary yellow originally and all the vents and speaker grills and knobs were painted canary yellow too. I had to replace half the interior. Thank God it didnt have fart cans on the exhaust