1st to second gear grind???

[hippy]

its a 92 f150 4x4 302 5 speed and i just got the truck and got a chance to check it over today!! i noticed some red fluid on the floor in my shop checked it out its tranny fluid what i thought! So i got underneath and its leaking at the tail end seal where the drive shaft fits in no big deal pretty easy fix!! Now i thought i would check the fluid and sure enought it was down a bit! So i added some. Now my question is this not all the time but sometimes the truck is hard to get in to second gearing up or gearing down it grinds a little once in a while! Bad synchros?? Or is there a fix for this?? Prob get teh tranny done over or second gear fixed. Any soloutions?? Thanks!!

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[adrianspeeder]

Take the few minutes to drain it and refill with some fresh Mercon.

Adriasnpeeder

[WVtrucker]

I'd change the fluid and either put the mercon in or I've heard people say good things about the synchromesh from GM and the royal purple equivalent.

[Clifford f150]

Do you mean an actual GRIND where it makes that horrible noise as if you don't know how to drive a stick---or just a brief hesitation and you can kind of hear something and feel it in the lever? If you're talking about the first, I don't know but the 2nd mine did that initially-- I refilled it with synthetic (mobil1 was all I could seem to find) and it went away for the most part. Every now and again on a cold morning it does it but only on the 1st shift. Here in AZ 40 degrees is a cold morning, by the way. Where is P.E.I? I hope it doesn't get real cold there!

Anyway, I didn't think synthetic fluid would help as much as it did, but it solved my problem.