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Old Feb 15, 2008 | 05:48 PM
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Hope you guys have some ideas because I'm out.

Drives ok in the morning. As it heats up the gear shifting gets real notchy, sometimes grinds going into 4, down shifting real hard into 2.

LS7 clutch kit 15k ago, all new hyd 15k ago, changed trans fluid, 115k on tranny.

Just started all of a sudden about a month ago.
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Old Feb 15, 2008 | 06:36 PM
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sounds like you have water in the clutch fluid. I would replace fluid with D.O.T. brake fluid. drain reservoir till you can just see the bottom but do not remove all of the fluid so you dont get air in the system.
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Thanks, that did the trick
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Old Feb 17, 2008 | 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by jetmech09
sounds like you have water in the clutch fluid. I would replace fluid with D.O.T. brake fluid. drain reservoir till you can just see the bottom but do not remove all of the fluid so you dont get air in the system.
Just curious, how would this get air in the system? Even if you drained it half way down the tubing to the master cylinder, wouldn't the air be pushed out when you add new fluid. I mean, there aren't any pockets for it to hide in.
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