syncros are what make your gear beggin to turn before it is locked in so it goes in smoothly. If you slam your shifter or force it in gear or what not you'll damage them. Now its not like there made of glass, they can take some abuse but you really(for any reason) should you ever slam the shifter. I notice alot of people when they race slam that shifter in gear because they want to do it as quick as possible thats dosn't give you a better shift, will ***k your syncros, and is dangerous because you can miss gears. you should always shift calmly and controllingly(don't think thats a word but you get the point.)

IF your syncros are bad you don't have to rebuild the entire tranny. you just have to replace the syncros. which is a pain in the ***. it involves dropping the tranny, pulling the gears out, replacing syncros, and reasembling

 

it's not the clutch,,, i have to take my foot out a litlle and gear goes in..the cars has been lowered over a year ago and i'll try and replace the snub and tranny mounts.theyr probly bad already.....sometimes the gear goes fine...sometimes i force a little and it goes but i dont like to do that....it feels like it's in the wrong position...i dont know...thanks guys!!

 

I have the same thing but I feel it more when I'm downshifting in to 1st gear..

I've had it since for ever thought it was normal

 

OK, well, It sounds from all the replies like its not the clutch.

Syncros is the worse of the two scenarios though. Maybe the tranny will keep working for you for a long time still, even though its hard to get in gear, once its in gear it should be fine.

Hopefully its not too bad and you can get by without having to have the tranny serviced.

You might want to try a fluid change as oneoint8tee suggested. That may help with the problem.

 

have you tried checking the clutch master cylinder for fluid-
not trying to be a smart a$$ but air bubbles or lack of fluid will cause the throw of the pedal to be shorter than if the lines were full of fluid-

had the same problem out of a jetta @ the track - the guy had never even seen his clutch master cylinder and sure as $hyt is was EMPTY_____ and gues what that means --- clutch grindage -

what a beautiful song - usualy reserved for honda's , tryin to keep up- aha ha ha!

 

i'll look into it..thnks...