Transmison problem Please Help ASAP

[G35turbo]

Hi

Well when ever i did my 60k miles tune up at the dealer ship they told me that i had leak in my tansmision and they told they cant fixed and i have to replace and that would cost me about $3500. Now after about 3 or 4k miles i have a problem. At first i thought its my clutch but now I think its my syncro.

Here is the problem.

My 1st gear is kind of normal but then 2nd and after when i floor the car the RPM just moves real fast goes to almost 4500rpm and goes down back to like 3000rpm and then it goes all the way. It dose it really bad when i am driving the highway and i am going about 60 to 70 and i am in 5 or 6 the gear and when i even bearly hit the gas the rpm just goes up and i know there is nothing wrong with my rpm gauge because the car is not accelerating that fast.

Please if anybody can tell me what is wrong with my car and if the synro is gone bad and what i can do???? I hope its just a clutch because i dont want to pay $3500 for a new transmision.

My car is a 1997 vr4 with 69500 miles on it.

Thank You

[Igovert500]

Doesn't sound like a synchro at all...unfortunantly trannies aren't my best subject...possibly a slipping clutch? Do you have any mods because typically clutchs don't slip that early unless they are over 400hp....I could be wrong on the entire clutch slipping though...wait around for some other opinions...regardless though...even if you need to replace the entire tranny...it can be done for less that 3500.

[Technical_Automan]

Yeah that's a clutch slippage...usally not the clutch's fault when it does that. It's either warpage of the pressure plate surface, or more likely the flywheel surface. But if your clutch is old then that could be it too.

[G35turbo]

what do u mean old, is 69k miles old?

[Technical_Automan]

Well I'd say so, depends on the type of clutch, and how it has been treated.

[Migra]

Heh, I know how I'd treat a 97 vr4's clutch *vroom... vroom... BUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA -shift- BUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*

[G35turbo]

thats what i did lol lol lol

[YogsVR4]

If you have a leak in the transfer case, then you should take the car in for the recall (as the transfer case is replaced by Mitsubishi). If you don't know if the car has been taken in, the dealership can look up that information based on your VIN - Mitsubishi knows what cars it did the work on.

From the sounds of your description, you are not dealing with a syncro problem. It sounds exactly like the clutch is going. On my old Nissan, that was the exact problem I had. Its time for a new clutch/pressure plate assembly.