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Got to be worth a look i guess, is there a guide or how to anywhere for this? Cheers Andy

it is a bit odd, you clutch in and select 5th and it kinda feels like it's gone in gear but when you lift the clutch it starts to crunch straight away, you can get it in 5th with out the clutch which says to me it does have a 5th gear but i'm no gear gearbox expert, i'm just assuming it's the syncro ring as i can rev the car up and force it into gear at around 40mph without using the clutch but with the clutch you can not get 5th, all other gears are spot on

thats a great little read that, do you need to buy all the parts that are listed with item numbers? I've all the gear to do that and with the how to it looks a easy ;) cheers for the reply Andy

honestly, no, i can try topping it up to check the level but if 5th's gone it's not going to help it now i wouldn't have thought??

just wondering if someone could shed some light on a car a friend has asked me to look at for him (becasue i have tools and he has none!) He has a VR6 corrado and it crunchs when trying to select 5th and won't go in gear, i daren't push it hard as feels and sounds a bit nasty. I can get it to go into 5th with a clutchless gear change, not everytime though, you need to be going about 40mph for it to work, but when it doesn't go in it's crunching, but there is a 5th gear in there somewhere! once it's in it's fine. Does this sound like the syncromesh is is knackered or 5th gear is knackered? Looking on the web all the 5th gear assembly is in the end cap part of the box so quite accessable once the box is removed, all other gears are fine. The other thing i guess could be the selector cables but i've looked at these today and they look ok at first glance on both the box and gear stick base. let me know your thoughts Cheers Andy quick edit, it starts the cruching when you go to lift the clutch up to drive, almost like it's not quite made it into 5th, thought i would mention this after reading a sticky thread on here about linkage adjustment, the gearstick looks like it's in the correct place in neutral (bang in the middle) and all other gears are bang on to.