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!!

 

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

Adriasnpeeder

 

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.

 

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.