[phantomrt]

Mine has a "clunk" going into 2nd and 3rd gear. This spring is the first time I ever got to drive the car to see what the transmission is like. I have 80W90 gear oil in the transmission now--I was thinking of going with something much lighter and see what that does. With 80W 90, there is a lot of fluid viscosity to overcome in order to get the gear sets to match speed properly, hence the reason transmissions work better when they're warm. Thats my opinion anyway. I'm thinking some old type F transmission fluid may work really well.

One other thing is that with my car, when I try to coast when the engine/transmission is cold, it feels like the parking brake is dragging. Literally two miles down the road, and the car starts to coast almost as well as any other car. With everything cold, I can raise all 4 wheels, grab one of the rear wheels, and spin it by hand which also spins the other three wheels of the car with no unusual amounts of force. Its like it is a viscous drag--the faster you spin it, the more effort it takes. Weird. I hope I don't have anything F'ed up. But I've put over 800 miles on it like this, and not a bit of troubles or abnormal noises from the drivetrain.