*HELP* hard shifting

[tkhaab_94]

well when i bought my car the previous owner said that i will need to change the gear oil in the transmission.
changed it and put some if that lucas brand "hard shifting/Slipping fixer" and it felt a little worst than before.
it was hard to get into gear and out of. i looked at the bottles of the gear oil and it said GL-5 approved. read online and it said that GL-5 eats the Brass syncros in our transmissions.
so i left it in there for a few days to wait on the new royal purple gear oil. i got it from pep boys. they only had 2 bottles.our cars need 2.3 quarts i believe.
so i asked the sales people what can i mix with the royal purple oil? they said that i can mix Pennzoil syncromesh with the gear oil. so i did. put both bottles of royal purple and topped it off with syncromesh.
it was a little better to shift but i still have to force it kind of.
so i did this mod that i found out on the celica forums that they did.
which was to spray white lithium grease on the shifter linkage. that helped a bit.
so its still hard to shift into and out of gear. what can i do about it? i also heard that it can be the shifter linkage thats going bad. any ideas? this is making me not liking my car...

 

[tkhaab_94]

oh yeah i forgot my car also has a short shifter.

 

[92_eclipse_GS]

sometimes its not always the shifter that is the problem.
check to make sure your clutch is engaging/disengaging fully, and then from there check your clutch pedal adjustment.
tweak that until its to your liking, and from there you will know if it is something else wrong like your shift linkages.

 

[1992GSX]

Check your shifter bushings and cables. Cables could be loose and/or bushings could be corroded. Either of those would be easy fixes, but it could be your synchros are going out.

 

[tkhaab_94]

yeah how do i check all those? dont forget im new to this.

 

[boostingsx98]

I had a similar problem and it was my short shifter, replace it with the stock one and it should help

 

[mrTalonAWD95]

when i put royal purple in my car it was a night and day difference. put a stock shifter on.

 

[tkhaab_94]

umm so today i checked out the master slave cylinder. i took off the cap and pumped the clutch for about 2 mins and i put the cap back on and it's shifting way better than before. i think there was pressure in the cylinder and it couldnt get any fluid flowing.. thats odd..but now its good. i just hopes it stays like that.

 

[95redturboawd]

I assume you meant the master cylinder. There's a difference between the master and slave cylinders. I'm not sure how taking the cap off and pumping the clutch would have done anything if you didn't actually bleed the clutch, but who knows.

 

[tkhaab_94]

yeah i mean the master. but idk it helped it. prob is fixed for now, and hopefully forever!!