Anyone tried synthetic oil in the 6 speed manual tranny to smooth out the shifts?

Manual calls for 5W-20 oil, and I'm not sure if the factory fill is synthetic or not.

Thanks in advance.

 

My tranny shifts so smoothly I hadn't considered changing anything. Smooth as the proverbial baby's behind. That doesn't say I haven't ground a few...but always due to my foot getting ahead of my hand.

 

It is a notchy shifter by design. The slickest stuff in the world is not going to change that. This car was never designed to be a dragster or speed shifter...just a stable handling, high speed cruiser. Of all of those cars that can outrun you at a red light, how many can cruise with you @ 140 mph.

 

It funny that this thread should crop up because I was going to start one on this very subject. Anyway, here's my $.02:

I have noticed that my shifter has smoothed out considerably as the miles have racked-up. I have just under 27,000 miles on the car and the shifter seems much smoother than I remember it when it was new. I don't have any problems getting it into first or reverse any more either.

 

bobs, I only have 5k on mine but it too, seems a little better than when new. I have to wonder whether it is just me getting used to the idiosyncrasy of the thing, or if it really is "getting the edges knocked off."

 

Mine balks going in to first. Always has, still does.* It feels like something is blocking the path, then, mysteriously, the resistance disappears and she clicks home.


*14,000 miles

 

It may be a little of both.

 

Okay...I get it. Now that you mention it...I have the same "problem". I chalked it up to my recent return to a stick. Reverse is smooth, really smooth. And after the resistance to 1st, which I realized that I have adjusted to by double clutching, I have no trouble at all except for my own timing errors. Compared to most sticks I've driven recently, it is tighter than the others...but I felt the others were too sloppy owing to the mileage on them. I still haven't turned 4,000 miles on Two Harleys...probably this weekend.