[bigwave]

Are you guys getting tired of me yet?

More questions, this is the first Ford I've owned since my 1980 4/cyl 4/speed mustang, what a pile! She used more oil then gas, then finally the timing chain went and Ko-blueeee.

1) how do you change the rear-end oil on a 1999 cobra? Is there a drain screw or do I have to loosen several and crack it open or???
- Then how do I add oil back in to refill it?

2) Not often but once in a while the car is hard to get out of reverse, I've read a few things about the car being tough to get into reverse, which has not been a problem, I just shift to first or second then to reverse and she lines right up.
When it gets stuck in reverse I re-ingage the clutch a few times and it comes out, should I be concerned?

I will be dropping the tainy soon to replace clutch and bearings should I check anything else? I've already changed the tans fluid.

Thanks for all the info guys.

[Brutal Metal]

to get into reverse easier put it in 2nd gear first then move the shifter to reverse!
As far as removing your gear oil, the easiest way is a pump with a plastic tube fitting to suck it out since the cover doesn't have a drain plug! the cover has a fill plug on the top of it!

[98SVT_Le Tank]

The t-45 from ford has an issue with getting stuck in reverse so i was told by ford. Mine was having the same issue so i oppted for a rebuild. The tranny guy said one of the "dogs" was ate up thats why it was getting stuck. I think that is the right term not to familiar with trannys. But mine had the same issue got worse very fast, so i got a rebuild.

[bjoe427]

Your transmisionneedsoil,I had oneget stuck insecond gear.all it needed was some oil.

[svt4me]

2 main things you need 2 do are.. 1st get redline synthetic automatic transmission fluid for ur 5 speed cobra... no joke.. it will take away all knotchy and grindage you may have... 2nd get 75w 90 gear oil with a 4 ounce bottle of friction modifier for your rear differential.. makes a huge difference...

[CleanNGreen96]

+ 1 on the ATF. Only stuff that make's the T-45 less raunchy. On my T-45 an my Tremec I always go in to fourth gear first, then reverse, frees up the mesh a bit better or something like that that coming straight out of 1st or neutral. So a tranny guy had told me ? ? Or worst case scenario, like 98SVT said one of the dogs, synchros could be fried...

[01FordCobra]

I use 1 bottle of Lucas no slip and fill it to the top with Mobil 1 Full Synthetic ATF. But I have a 3650 and she loves it.

[bigwave]

OK, last weekend I put in a little over 3.5qts of redline synthetic automatic transmission fluid Mercon compatible with about 1oz of miltech-1. So far so good, the stuck in reverse thing only happend twice and every other time it came right out with vertually no effort, that was before the fluid change.


Now I need to do the rear end fluid, I think I see a fill plug, simalar to the one's on the trasmissoin a 3/8 socket type. I guess I have to suck the fluid out with a pump? Then fill back to the fill hole?