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Difficulty getting into second - and soft brakes all at once! 1984

posted by  amara240 on  Fri Aug 27 10:14 CST 2004
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I have an old 240, 1984. I'm having a couple of problems with it. I think I have the brakes MOSTLY sussed out, but I'll get to that later.

The car has standard transmission, 4 spd with OD.

Sometimes it's easy to get into second, sometimes it doesn't want to go into second at all. It's always easier to get into second from first than it is from third. I'm not having any trouble getting it into any other gear, it goes into third and 4th like a dream, 1st can get a touch sticky, but I can always find it.

Any pearls of wisdom before I take it to a transmission place and say what i just said?

Onto the brakes. They're spongy, dangrously so. I know I need 3 new rotors and allegedly my front passenger caliper is also acting up. Do you think the master cylinder might be a little faulty as well? There is no fluid loss that I can see, the fluid level in the reservoir hasn't moved since I had the car looked at last december, but the sponginess has gotten to the point where I either fix the car or stop driving it. Can the master cylinder go without leaking?

I'd like to get it fixed. This car is wonderful. Thank you for your help :)






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