1st gear synchro

[slottcar]

Doods,

I have a friend with an 88 Festiva with the 5spd manual. He thinks the 1st gear synchro is bad because he can only get it into gear by double clutching. I told him that I think that tranny is NOT fully synchronized like a lot of trannies from that era. Does the 5spd Festiva have a 1st gear synchro? Any hellp appreciated.

[gdawgs]

The tranny IS fully synchronized. Could be a bad synchro, or a mal-adjusted clutch. You have to go back pretty far to find non-synchronized transmissions. My 72 MG Midget does not have a synchronized 1st gear, but all the other gears are. MGAs are also have non-synced 1st gears. Those are the only cars that I have driven that are not fully synced. I've driven 50's and 60's vintage American vehicles and those were fully synced.

[FB71]

yup, most transmissions became fully syncronised in the mid '60's. My 64 1/2 Mustang with a 170 straight 6 has a non-synchro 1st, but my 67 Stang conv with a 200 straight 6 has the RAN/RAT fully synchro'd 3 speed.