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SSsssteamer · 01-11-2015, 09:46 PM

Has any one experienced this? I bought the complete transmission rebuild package for my '29 Tudor from Mac's. The shifting tower was rebuilt last year and it was working fine then and it still is. The transmission works fine all of the way around, but on compression in third gear after about 500 yards of compression, if the gear shifter is not held in, third pops into neutral. I can hold it in third but it tries for neutral all of the time while under compression. Under power in third, it holds very tightly in gear on its own. What did they do wrong? Did they cut the 2 & 3 gear slider wrong? I could give the third gear engagement teeth a little help with a Dremel grinder. Any other thoughts to a fix on this except for buying more new gears from Mac's?

01-11-2015, 09:46 PM	#1
SSsssteamer Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Sedro-Woolley, WA Posts: 1,023	Slipping out of 3 rd on compression Has any one experienced this? I bought the complete transmission rebuild package for my '29 Tudor from Mac's. The shifting tower was rebuilt last year and it was working fine then and it still is. The transmission works fine all of the way around, but on compression in third gear after about 500 yards of compression, if the gear shifter is not held in, third pops into neutral. I can hold it in third but it tries for neutral all of the time while under compression. Under power in third, it holds very tightly in gear on its own. What did they do wrong? Did they cut the 2 & 3 gear slider wrong? I could give the third gear engagement teeth a little help with a Dremel grinder. Any other thoughts to a fix on this except for buying more new gears from Mac's?