Technical Newbie with Shifting Question

[ssbrad]

Complete newbie just became the happy owner of a 1981 Spider "project". I have been driving manual transmission cars for years and greatly appreciate thoughts and best practices for shifting here. I haven't had a chance to get my "new" Fiat out yet for more than a few miles but noticed that it seems very hard to find and put the car in first gear and reverse. What I mean literally is that with the clutch engaged, it is difficult to move the shifter into first gear - same for reverse.

Prior owner recommended keeping the car in 1st when parked and assume that like most other cars, that isn't problematic.

Again greatly appreciate any thoughts.

thanks!

Scott

 

[ssbrad]

Okay, this is apparently such a newbie issue that I figured it out... press the clutch all of the way down...

 

[mbouse]

well, that was assumed. glad that you figured it out.

make sure you use only GL-1 90 weight fluid in that tranny to keep the brass syncros happy.