[Nickshu]

Your 915 will most definitely be more difficult to shift when cold.

Signs of problems would be grinding into gears at any temperature (at appropriate speeds for those gears), loud whining noises, etc. The first place to look is your shift linkage adjustment. Pelican has a tech article on this and it may be in Waynes book.

As far as your clutch...if you have not replaced the cable and helper spring and adjusted it, you should think about doing this first. This solves many peoples concerns with heaviness and lack of total disengagement. One test if the clutch is disengaging totally is to press in the clutch and put the car in reverse (at a full stop!). If it grinds, generally the clutch is still catching.

I would be very surpised if your car made it to 135K with one or two clutches. I dont know what year you have, but some of the SC's came with rubber centered clutches which are known to "explode" when the rubber centering unit brakes up. If yours has been replaced (and it most likely has) it was probably upgraded to the newer style.


Start with the simple...shift linkage adjustment, cable adjustment (replacement?) and Swepco 201 or the 210 which people on this board are begining to like better than 201 (see recent discussion on this in archives)

Hope this helps.
Nick.