Autozone I guess sense your kinda close to me u proably have them over there to sometimes I forget there not everywhere or not all over the states

 

we've got the trio of doom here... advance, autozone, and o'reilly. they all want too damn much for a slave cylinder though.

 

Yea I guess living Memphis were they started they must have different prices for certain things well regardless find ya one and slap it on see what happens

 

will do. thanks again for the help man. i'll hopefully be able to have an update tomorrow.

 

I got a question..

Have you drained and filled the fluid whatsoever?

Use a GL-4 gear oil, btw. I'm not sure how much.

 

i haven't since getting the truck... will that cause this noise?

 

also will a gl-5 do?

 

It's just something to do just cause.

GL-5 will tear apart your synchro's, so find a GL-4. Doesn't have to be synthetic since most synthetic gear oils are GL-5 (BAD!)

 

thanks man! i didn't know that.

after doing some reading i'm hoping the fluid change will quiet it down... i need my truck!

 

well guys... i checked my oil level and i had NONE. so i filled the gearbox, went through all my gears, started the truck and my problem was GONE!

i feel like an idiot now my transmission is a little quieter and shifts a little better. i'll give the gearbox another dump/fill when i change my oil next.

 

Well that solves that thank cinnamon for mentioning a fluid check ... You skipped step 1 and went to step 10 .haha it happens glad your noise stopped and back on the road

 

Haha I'm glad you got it buttoned back up and it's much better now!
Don't feel bad, man. I was reading through the thread and noticed no one mentioned anything about gear oil. It could've been worse off if I didn't see this thread, right?

What fluid did you go with?

 

thanks guys. yeah i definitely skipped step one. i actually was planning on changing the oil the day it happened and expected the worst. i even got my synchros back as well, will had been missing from day one. i haven't had the truck long which is why i hadn't gotten to it yet.

i went with a gl-5 80w-90 from the o'reilly. only gl-4 they had was straight 140 but the gear oil i chose isn't synthetic. is there any specific brand ya'll run?

i'm kinda looking forward to my next gearbox oil change to see how it looks.

 

also i'm still having some transmission noise but it's the original almost 40 year old gearbox. is this okay? it's nothing that sounds too scary but i can't help but worry.

 

I just use off the shelf 80w90

Well how long did you drive around or did you? those bearings proably weren't to happy if you did might have some noise from those carrier bearings front and back change fluid again after some miles

 

at least 20 miles a day five days a week. its really a miracle it lasted that long because i'm almost sure the PO didn't have fluid on it or the clips for the shift fork. i haven't said it on here yet but when i dropped the tranny my throwout bearing was still working.

but his story did have some truth to it. it does have a semi new clutch on it!

 

Well it might have a little noise to it now but the fluid well help quiet it down some as well keep the tranny cooler cause I'm sure it got pretty hot in there without gear oil to control some heat build up just run with it and change it again in the near future say the end of this month or a little sooner

 

I used a Valvoline GL-4 80W-90? maybe it was 85W-90.

Hopefully when you drain it, it can flush it out some. Just don't let that GL-5 eat those synchros.

 

where'd you find this at? my o'reilly doesn't carry it.

if the gl-5 isn't synthetic will it eat the synchros? on the bottle is says it's suitable for using in gearboxes that call for gl-4 but you can only trust those so much. i still don't believe gas additives work as well as they do in the commercials

 

and scrub88, will do!!!