The car has 116K km's (72K miles) I test drove it and it makes a lot of rattle noises, found out it was exhaust related (pushed up on the exhaust and there's a rattle noise from the part that goes over the crossmember) and heat sheild bolts are rusted away completely on the header so it rocks back and forth. The tranny seems fine with normal driving (or granny shifting), but when going full throttle, it grinds from 2nd to third if shifting quickly. Or If downshifting from 4th to 3rd at higher speeds, it grinds when going into 3rd gear. I had my mechanic open the tranny drain plug and drained a tiny little out and it looked quite dark and we did notice tiny bits of shiny metallic inside of it.
In previous cars I've owned sometimes if gears were grinding, gm syncromesh would fix this, is it possible in the SVT? Or you guys think the 3rd gear syncro is shot? Another thing I've been reading is that there some kind of counter balance thing with the shiter that MIGHT cause something like this, but wouldn't it make it do it in all gears not just one?
In previous cars I've owned sometimes if gears were grinding, gm syncromesh would fix this, is it possible in the SVT? Or you guys think the 3rd gear syncro is shot? Another thing I've been reading is that there some kind of counter balance thing with the shiter that MIGHT cause something like this, but wouldn't it make it do it in all gears not just one?
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