I am betting you are right. By the feel of it, the auto car does not like to move until it is pretty well warmed up...you step SLOWLY on the gas when cold and you can feel it going: Nooooo....not yet.

I would venture to say that being a bit to aggressive with the gas pedal prior to the magic "I am warmed up now and am OK" that the car will go *gulp* <sputter> ~gulp~ - stall / flood -

You must drive smart for the first mile or else...

N-E-Ways....back to the talk about manual transmissions...

*clink* BoinK! <clatter> ~dink~ No-zoom zoom.

P.S. You all DO know I am just poking you a bit...right?

AHhHHHhhhh...Look out! <scampers out the back door with an angry crowd charging after>

 

Your 3/4 shift fork may be damaged like mine. CHeck out my threads on shift forks.

 

The reason for the dual shift forks on the 6th gear, is the transmission is really just a 5speed miata tranny, and they retrofitted a 6th gear into it. The gear is farther back than the others, which is why it needs the dual shift forks.

So really the transmission isnt a true 5 speed, but a modded 5 speed.

 

2nd day with my RX-8, about 110 miles on it...and my 6th gear just dropped off the map. Tried to ease it in, as suggested earlier (interestingly enough, I read this post about 2 days before I got my '8), and I pulled off the road and turned it off, trying to ease it on while the car was off. Nothing. =(

OH, and to top it all off, I got my car at a dealership out of town, and when I drive in to this dealership to see if I will be lucky and anyone in sales would maybe see if a service tech was lurking around 1 hour after service closed, all I got was the staredown. The guy I talked with earlier this week wouldn't even look at me. Talk about shitty customer service...I'm 20 years old, and a service manager at a bank...because of my age the a-hole wouldn't take me seriously. He wouldn't even give me a quote - when I already had several from outside dealerships. He told me, and I quote, "Get some financing first, and then I'll give you a quote."

Sorry just had to vent...8 people, just staring at me, uttering not a SINGLE word or moving a SINGLE muscle to ask me what I needed as I walked all around their glass enclosure, with my baby short a gear just outside makes Johnny an angry boy!

I think I just may have to drive my RX-8 by the service department weekly, come to think of it :D

 

My 6th gear is still working. I am hoping it was a bur on the shift gate or fork. I have put an additional 3000 miles on it.

John

 

Ahh, no miracle cures from the gurus at RX8 club...whats going on?! Someone wave their fingers and give me my sixth gear back!

 

Done

 

Well, I tried it again to no avail.

Maybe your finger needs the "M" flash?

 

as the syncros heat up after use they seem to get slightly bigger. I have notice to that during extended driving. and shifting, it gets a little harder to get in and out of 6th to 4th . sometimes inbetween 6th gear and down shifting i can feel it grind a bit! then it pops into the gear i am looking for.

I think it may be the heat!.

 

heres a possibility, maybe you wre pressing down a little bit when going to 6th, and the gearbox may have been trying to go to reverse, something that cant be done, could explain why it worked for the dealer

 

yea when my car is off i have a hard time getting into 5 and 6 gear but when i step on the clutch when the car is off it goes fine and fine everytime after that even when the car is off but first try with not stepping on the clutch is a no go, and at high rpms its also hard for me to shift first to second maybe its just me but its a pain easing it it takes a long time when the rpms are high and forcing it in is crazy.

 

Sounds like the input shaft bearing in your transmission, especially if you are in neutral. Not good... Have you had the transmission oil level checked?

Whoa, just noticed the original post data on this 2/28/04

 

From reading this board I would say that is a noise that many RX8s make, so either we all have bad throwout bearings, wrong transmission oil levels, or it is just a sound the car makes.

 

I changed to Oil in my gearbox to Royal Purple 75W-90W. The oil that came out had the viscosity of water. I checked the manual and it is supposed to have 75W oil. That could be where some of the problems are coming from.

John

 

Where did you see this?

At the Mazda USA website, the ratios of gears 1-5 for the RX-8 and the 5 spd Miata aren't close. Even the Miata 6 spd ratios aren't the same as the RX-8's (although they are close).

http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/disp...ehicleCode=RX8

http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/disp...ehicleCode=MIA