6Speed Manual Fg Clunking When Hot

[Rusty XR6T]

yer no idea unless you hear it, my box feels pretty loose and clunky when it gets hot, but to me it feels better... when the box is dead cold in the morning its a real b!tch to get the sucker into second until it heats up.

my FG has done 45,000km now and over that 45,000km the gear box was feeling better and better, but at my recent service they did my clutch fluid and must of done a few other things cause now the box is as tight as anything again

[sam_rigger]

do you have the standard clutch Rusty? or an mal wood opt 3 or something?

I'm thinking of getting the option 3 plus, would that effect the 'clunky' feel to the box?

[Rusty XR6T]

I have standard clutch at the moment, dont have any problems with it at the drags, no problems running 12.89 anyway

once all the mods are done and the car is 320rwkw I'll definitely be doing the clutch then!

a heavier clutch is always going to be different to the standard one, it really depends on what you call clunky mate.

a few people have bagged the FG manual saying the clutch is too heavy the box is crap me personally the clutch feels fine and box works perfectly. the box makes some moans and groans and sometimes doesnt feel as smooth as other cars, but remember the box is attached to a 4ltr in line 6, not a 2 ltr ricer

[sam_rigger]

I think you should have a drive of mine and see what the box is like compared to yours. I rekon mine sux on take-offs.

[Rusty XR6T]

PM me and we can catch up, im pretty much free all week

[sam_rigger]

Ok I will mate.

Thanks

[j.d]

nah I was talking about the TR6060 I got a fg xr6t and sure it has noise but nothing that I would be worried about or anything like that no "annoying" noises and not hard to change gears.

could be your clutch giving up? how many k's have u done

see rusty hopefully you guys can work it out

[sam_rigger]

After meeting up with Rusty I've come to the conclusion it's driver error, I'm being too gentle with it. Rusty drove it and it was great. So now I'm going to get practicing! Thanks Rusty fir meeting up with me, and Fark your car hammers!

[dule]

Don't you love it when a solution to the problem is "drive it harder"

[sam_rigger]

Haha yeah. I was changing gears too early and too actively, I'm still a bit rough but better, I hate driving in traffic with this gearbox .

Edited 21/01/11 09:45 PM by sam_rigger