New GT Owner with Some Questions
06-12-2009, 10:46 AM
#1
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Delaware
Posts: 16
New GT Owner with Some Questions
Hey All!
I've always wanted a Mustang and finally my parents got me a 2002 GT in Mineral Gray for my 17th birthday! This is my first car other than the Civic I shared with my sister for a year. I don't really know all that much about these cars but I know how to do the basics. After my parents surprised me with the car (which already has a killer Bassani exhaust!) I wanted to make sure all the fluids were fine and everything so I took it to a friends house that knows more about cars than I do and has tools and stuff to change the oil, air filter and transmission fluid. Everything went fine until we got to the transmission fluid. I wasn't sure what kind to put in it and my friend said any transmission fluid works in manual transmissions. So we put the kind of transmission fluid that he had in his garage into the car until it came out of the fill hole.
My question is this: Since we changed the transmission fluid it has been really hard to shift. It grinds almost every time and now I'm scared that I might have broken something since now the clutch pedal is really hard to push. If I put the right kind of fluid in will it fix it? What kind of fluid should I get? Thanks in advanace.
I've always wanted a Mustang and finally my parents got me a 2002 GT in Mineral Gray for my 17th birthday! This is my first car other than the Civic I shared with my sister for a year. I don't really know all that much about these cars but I know how to do the basics. After my parents surprised me with the car (which already has a killer Bassani exhaust!) I wanted to make sure all the fluids were fine and everything so I took it to a friends house that knows more about cars than I do and has tools and stuff to change the oil, air filter and transmission fluid. Everything went fine until we got to the transmission fluid. I wasn't sure what kind to put in it and my friend said any transmission fluid works in manual transmissions. So we put the kind of transmission fluid that he had in his garage into the car until it came out of the fill hole.
My question is this: Since we changed the transmission fluid it has been really hard to shift. It grinds almost every time and now I'm scared that I might have broken something since now the clutch pedal is really hard to push. If I put the right kind of fluid in will it fix it? What kind of fluid should I get? Thanks in advanace.
06-12-2009, 11:34 AM
#3
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: California
Posts: 76
Hey All!
I've always wanted a Mustang and finally my parents got me a 2002 GT in Mineral Gray for my 17th birthday! This is my first car other than the Civic I shared with my sister for a year. I don't really know all that much about these cars but I know how to do the basics. After my parents surprised me with the car (which already has a killer Bassani exhaust!) I wanted to make sure all the fluids were fine and everything so I took it to a friends house that knows more about cars than I do and has tools and stuff to change the oil, air filter and transmission fluid. Everything went fine until we got to the transmission fluid. I wasn't sure what kind to put in it and my friend said any transmission fluid works in manual transmissions. So we put the kind of transmission fluid that he had in his garage into the car until it came out of the fill hole.
My question is this: Since we changed the transmission fluid it has been really hard to shift. It grinds almost every time and now I'm scared that I might have broken something since now the clutch pedal is really hard to push. If I put the right kind of fluid in will it fix it? What kind of fluid should I get? Thanks in advanace.
I've always wanted a Mustang and finally my parents got me a 2002 GT in Mineral Gray for my 17th birthday! This is my first car other than the Civic I shared with my sister for a year. I don't really know all that much about these cars but I know how to do the basics. After my parents surprised me with the car (which already has a killer Bassani exhaust!) I wanted to make sure all the fluids were fine and everything so I took it to a friends house that knows more about cars than I do and has tools and stuff to change the oil, air filter and transmission fluid. Everything went fine until we got to the transmission fluid. I wasn't sure what kind to put in it and my friend said any transmission fluid works in manual transmissions. So we put the kind of transmission fluid that he had in his garage into the car until it came out of the fill hole.
My question is this: Since we changed the transmission fluid it has been really hard to shift. It grinds almost every time and now I'm scared that I might have broken something since now the clutch pedal is really hard to push. If I put the right kind of fluid in will it fix it? What kind of fluid should I get? Thanks in advanace.
06-12-2009, 12:16 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Hurst, TX
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