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You said Alfa... heheh.. I had a love affair with the....


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Ok.. I’ll stop highjacking this thread.. fun cars to drive. Complete PIA to maintain. (NOTE - I never ended up buying one.. those were not my cars. Just what I expired to do should I own one.. )

 

OK - that seems really expensive..?? 9K? What am I missing here?

 

@Grizld700 I have not hade this problem on a Mini but it was common on the brands I use to work on as a mechanic.
On Alfas it was common for second gear to do this. What caused it was a broke tooth on the gear. This was usually accompanied with the second gear syncro going out. There were different reasons for the tooth barking, the syncro was because people would hold it in gear and wear out the syncro. Fiats X 1/9s it was revers. That was always because someone would push start it in revers.

I feel sure if there was metal in the oil your second gear is damaged.Having to slow a little to get it in gear sounds like your syncro is going. Time to rebuild

 

I dont know if a used transmission would be cheeper, it depends on what you have to replace in your transmission.
I would rather rebuild my transmission that way I would know it was strong.

 

It would appear that my google fu is weak also

 

Let us know what you find..

 

That would be a big bill!

 

Says the guy with two M5's! BMW/MINI thats what happened. But for the life of me I dint know why the transmission are so much!

 

Lol - you have a good point. The M5 transmissions (even the 88 with the “special” transmissions are not that much). The engine on the other hand.. that is expensive on the 88. The 03 isn’t that bad.. talking used that is, not new.