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demitristewart
post Oct 24 2006, 12:03 PM
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Howdy everyone. I have a 75 914 I just purchased. Nice and fun little car. I have a problem downshifting into 2nd gear -i hear gears grind. Also, when I'm at a stop and go to put the car in 1st gear, it grinds also.

Any idea what the problem is? The clutch engages all the way down by the floor.

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post Oct 25 2006, 10:15 AM
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Thanks for all the feedback. I was under the car yesterday. I found that the clutch cable was pretty loose. I do have a new cable for it (came with the car) so I will install this week. I drained the engine oil and transmission oil -both kind of dirty.

What is a good engine oil to use in this car? I drive it hard and rev high. The odometer says 89,000 miles so i figure at least 189,000. Also, the transmission uses gear oil, not sure which weight gear oil to put back in.

Any other general maintenance I should be thinking about. The valves are nto chattering so I don't think it needs a valve adjustment, but I guess that wouldn't hurt either...

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demitristewart   Shift Grinding   Oct 24 2006, 12:03 PM
blitZ   Hi and Welome. The first thing you may want to do...   Oct 24 2006, 01:08 PM
gary gartner   A clutch adjustment would be first on my list of t...   Oct 24 2006, 01:54 PM
demitristewart   That was a good article. I was thinking the clutc...   Oct 24 2006, 02:11 PM
Dr Evil   If your clutch is not adjusted soon you will be lo...   Oct 24 2006, 02:50 PM
rjames   :agree: If you just got the car I would replace ...   Oct 24 2006, 03:51 PM
ein 6er   check your clutch tube!! :wttc:   Oct 24 2006, 06:24 PM
demitristewart   Thanks for all the feedback. I was under the car ...   Oct 25 2006, 10:15 AM
Tobra   try check this out 914 manuals in PDF I use valv...   Oct 25 2006, 02:03 PM
Dr Evil   90w GL-5 gear oil will do ya just fine.   Oct 25 2006, 02:21 PM
Tobra   I think I probably need to adjust my clutch cable ...   Oct 26 2006, 07:49 AM
Dr Evil   Hey Man, You typically adjust at the tranny side....   Oct 26 2006, 07:53 AM
bd1308   I thought GL-5 would kill a trasmission like this?   Oct 26 2006, 07:54 AM
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