Downshifting to 2nd

[richd]

It could be the tranny but it could be you're not always pulling the shifter completely into second during turns.

Also...sometimes the dog teeth on the gear and the slider get beat up a bit from a bad shift (missing a gear, grinding, etc.). The gear and slider would engage fine except when aligned such that a nick on the slider tooth gets hung up on a nick on the gear tooth, preventing full engagement. Furthermore, the imperfections may interfere only during a downshift (syncros are speeding the gears up rather than slowing them down).

I hope that makes sense, I'll try to explain it better if it doesn't.

I still have the old gears from my rebuild, I'll try to pull them out and take pictures so you can see what I mean.

Good luck,

Rich D.