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I got my 2001 for a song as we thought the gearbox was toast. It was extremely hard to shift into any gear. It felt like all the cables and linkage was frozen or something inside was broken or jammed. I found it has the factory short shift and though that the mechanism was bad, it was fine. Cables? Nice and smooth and fully attached. Adjustment of the cables? No change. With nothing left to lose I decided to go ahead and change the fluid.
When I opened the fill plug, when the car was cold, oil shot out like projectile vomit and made a mess of everything. Strange. I then pulled the drain plug and drained the rest of the oil. Smelled like dinosaur 90w but was clean and free of debris. I could not get my hands on the factory oil here in Japan so I used a local synthetic oil from a Japanese company called Wakos and I did actually fill to about the top of the fill plug. Oh well.
Amazingly, when I got back into drive it was a little stiff until it warmed up but since then it has been slick as &*%$. Didn't need a gearbox after all.
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