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Well I got the NEO synthetic in last night. I some how overfilled the damn tranny.....so I had to drain some out this morning.....I HATE gear oil....and that neo shift is slicker then snot!

So I finally get the level right, and go out for a drive. Honestly, it really doesn't feel much different. Maybe slight better, but nothing super different. I need to drive it more though.

I also played with the shifter as I mentioned in the drivetrain forum. The stock wrx shifter is smoother......

Well I also have a damn squeak when I press on the clutch. I'm pretty sure it's the clutch pedal asembly. I tried to lube it....but that was a no go.....so I'm going to probably have to pull all the bolts.....and maybe try to grease the parts where it bolts to the car, or put some foam there. If that doesn't work, which will be a big pain in the ass to do.....I don't know what will. Then it's the pedal assembly itself. I'm pretty sure it's doing it because the one part on the pedal assembly is not bolted to anything, so the whole unit is tweaking itself.

PLUS.....I was on the phone most of the day with my mom, trying to walk her through compression testing the engine, replacing the plugs, cap & rotor on her 90 yota truck.

It overheated on friday, and ran like crap.....well after all that today....it looks like the one radiator pipe is rusted through, which probably caused the overheat.....and she's probably got a warped head gasket or a cracked head..........

I should really be drinking tonight......

mountain dew and vodka

MK

cap't & coke is my drink of choice usually.

I've even got a bottle of the private reserve stuff sitting on top of the fridge.....

I need to do a lot of maintainence on my car soon

I'm still driving on boiled brake fluid. It sucks

I think I got the squeak taken care of today. Pulled all the bolts holding the clutch/brake assembly on, and pulled it back far enough so that I could put some canopy foam on the parts where the pedal assembly bolts to. Hopefully this will be a permanent fix. I think the cause of the squeak is from the pedal assembly flexing due to the fact I don't have the one mounting point bolted up.

Now only if I can get this shifting bs taken care of.....I might actually enjoy my car

I think you're going to have to enjoy your car with the notchy gearbox. I learned to

I went for a drive tonight on one of the few roads in houston that's not flat and straight. it was a nice drive. I do enjoy driving it, when it behaves.

I think the notchiness is shifter related, because like I said.....I liked the stock wrx shifter. It was for the most part much smoother then the sti one.

I'll get it squared away.....you know me....I can't leave well enough alone until it's perfect

the wrx shifter smother than the sti????

when i drove a wrx for the first time i kept missing gears because the thing was soooooo nothchy. id pull down into second think i had it in and still had 2 nothces to go (4 total) with the sti i had no such problem. it was smoothe as a ,dare i say, honda

I don't know......but in my car with the turbo legacy transmission, the WRX shifter is smoother.

I'm going to be giving the kartboy ss a try and see how I like that with the wrx linkage.