It usually chips a couple gears, depending on the QUALITY of the gears-

Now and then shouldn't be a problem and it depends on what gears your mis-mesh and how much "force" you've applied--pretty variable results

I never could grind any of ny Corvette gears, in the 4/5/6 spds, I think they were much better synchro sys-

:rofl::rofl: JIMBO

 

Thats funny cause I never could get my C-4 off of dry pavement. I think Jeep has a much better 4x4 system. :doh:

 

I have a hard time going into 3rd and reverse, they grind at least once a week, and I don't know why... I'm careful, but I haven't had a problem ... yet.

 

how do you know if you've caused permanent damage by gear grinding?

 

By taking part your transmission and inspecting it. Don't sweat it you're fine. You probably caused more damage by referring to your Jeep as a car.

 

yea, my bad. i should probably edit that.

hypothetically speaking, if your transmission got jacked up from occasional gear grinding would it still be covered under the powertrain warranty?

 

Negative. That would fall under abuse, which is not covered by any warranty.

 

Negative. That would fall under abuse, which is not covered by any warranty.

okay thanks.

well that says to me that occasional gear grinding shouldn't be a real concern because if that fell under abuse and caused transmissions to fail, then chrysler would be rejecting warranty claims left and right.

i'm sure our jeeps are built well enough for things like this to happen occasionaly and not have our transmissions fail from occasional human error

 

You know what they say...

If you can't find 'em, grind 'em :rofl:

You're fine, everyone grinds the gears every once in a while. Over time it leads to extended wear, but the transmissions are built with the knowledge that they need to take a little abuse. I seem to grind gears all the time when someone else is in the car with me. Talk about being a nervous driver

 

In the manufacturing world, it's known as "deburring".
don't sweat it

 

Happens to everybody and is anticipated by the manufacturer. I've done it once or twice.

If you've got a manual, you're going to grind and stall sometimes. At the end of the day, just remember that you're a better person than everybody with the automatics. (I kid, I kid. )

 

Occasionally I'll skip gears. When I go from 4th to 6th I've been known to push it a little hard and end up in the reverse lane on the shifter. As soon as you put even the slightest pressure to put it in gear.....GRIND. Luckily the engineers must have...in their infinite wisdom....ALL HAIL THE ENGINEERS!....made it very difficult to put it in reverse whilst moving forward. That is all I need is the wee reminder and I'm back in neutral searching around for what I did with a Steve Erkel "DID I DO THAT?". Lately, as soon as I feel the detente I know I went too far and haven't done that trick in some time. I've driven standards for over 30 years and have ground enough coffee to make a significant number of pots...but at this point I don't worry about it because it never has amounted to a hill of beans (pun intended ).

 

just be glad it doesn't grind any time you take less than 10 seconds to shift...

 

? yours does i'm assuming?

 

His doesn't look to be a JK and probably has a lot more miles on it than most JKs...I'm guessing.

 

Cold mornings are a beeeotch. Had this problem often with my 2005 GTO. A tip alot of owners had for the M6 GTO trans was replace their stock fluid with Royal Purple. This is something I did with great results (less noise/heat/gear clash)...Also did this with my Harley Davidson. Royal Purple is good stuff. Have not tried it with the Rubicon yet but I will after 15k.

 

I wouldn't try it in the Rubi. That's why my tranny is messed up. I ran Royal Purple Syncromax for 10k miles and now my syncros are messed up.

 

Like JK'N said been driving manual tranny's for over 30 years and a little grinding makes you mad, makes you laugh, and makes you go "dumb ass" and then go on your way but I've never had it hurt the tranny. I did the same with my 09 X not hitting reverse when looking for 6th took a little getting used to.

 

The manual transmission here has NO reverse lock out.. hence be careful to go from 5th into 6th.. DON'T apply any outward pressure whilst shifting just let the shift lever follow the natural flow/track.
An occasional grind will not damage the gear teeth.. It will only rub the nose of the coupler dog teeth..(They are designed to take some abuse..)