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Hey guys might be a bit of a noob question buut the other day I was driving and managed to here a grinding noise when shifting from 2nd to 3rd. I think it was because I wasnt concentrating and the clutch was not all the way depressed. It was around 3500RPM and lasted about 1 second

Have I caused any damage to the box or syncros by doing so. Is it worth changing the tranny oil or?

Never have done this before so I am not quite sure.

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Hey guys might be a bit of a noob question buut the other day I was driving and managed to here a grinding noise when shifting from 2nd to 3rd. I think it was because I wasnt concentrating and the clutch was not all the way depressed. It was around 3500RPM and lasted about 1 second

Have I caused any damage to the box or syncros by doing so. Is it worth changing the tranny oil or?

Never have done this before so I am not quite sure.

I probably do that a couple of times a year due to brain fade. Its only worth changing the oil if its due for a change, or if you don't know when its due for a change, so you do one as a precaution then get back to the normal drain interval.

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Will be fine mate. Too much of it will wear out your synchros though. That sound you heard was the dog teeth grinding against each other because you hadn't clutched in properly. Unless your synchros start making noise regularly on gear changes you have nothing to worry about.

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Ye temporary brain fade...

I didn't slam it in, as soon as it grinded I am pretty sure it went back into neutral and then I put it into 3rd again.

Reason I asked was I thought there might be some metal shavings in the oil and well its never happened before so I didnt know what damage I had caused.

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Ye temporary brain fade...

I didn't slam it in, as soon as it grinded I am pretty sure it went back into neutral and then I put it into 3rd again.

Reason I asked was I thought there might be some metal shavings in the oil and well its never happened before so I didnt know what damage I had caused.

if there was and metal shavings, it would be bugger all, especially when you remember that there is a few litres of oil in the gearbox. secondly, i'm pretty sure the drain bolt has a magnet in it to collect any metal shavings to stop them doing any damage.

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cleaning the teeth grinding - take foot off clutch a little too early and hear the clutch teeth give a squeel.

hard grinding - crunching sound..

Well It wasnt like a crunch squeel more like a grinding i guess. I cant describe it really.

It is identical the sound first sound at 1.32 of this video.

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