[urq] Re: Gear Shift Lever

[Max Hoepli]

Very valuable info you gave there.

I never heard of the rated for Bronze syncros

Danke!

Max

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Cole" <pcole at mn.rr.com>
To: "Max Hoepli" <mhoepli at vif.com>
Sent: 25, January 2006 20:20
Subject: Re: Gear Shift Lever


> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:24:19 -0500, Max Hoepli wrote:
>
> >1986 Audi 4 door Quattro with 282,000km.
> >
> >In cold weather the gear shift lever is hard to pull into 2nd gear, when
rolling at 10km/hr the gear
> shift lever hard to put into 1st gear, putting into 2nd gear will work but
little vibration because Tacho
> shows < 1200rpm. When running for 15 minutes no problem with shifting,
never problem shifting
> into any other gear at any temperature.
> >Would change of 80/90 transmission oil help to shift smoothly?
> >
>
> I'd look at using a good synthetic gear lube- watch out for the GL5 vs GL4
> issue- be SURE , absolutely SURE that the gear lube is rated for BRONZE
> syncros like in the 016 gearbox.
>
> Lube the linkage, inspect the ball sockets and everything should shift
MUCH better.
>
> When I changed the lube in my '91 200tq 20v ( at 230k miles) the cold
shifting performance
> was much, much better.
> I switched to a redline synth 75w-90 lube. Then again I run the car in
Minnesota where
> ( well except this year) winter temps routinely hit double digit below
zero.
>
> HTH
>
>
> >Max
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