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Leawood911 said:
If the lever does not want to slide into the gate, release the clutch (while in neutral) for a second and depress it again (putting it in second gear and then back to first is really doing the same thing - giving the syncro a second chance - but is perhaps not necessary.).
After you release and depress the clutch for the second time the lever will likely drop right into gear (the first time you got it caught between two cold cogs).
The same trick also works well if you have difficulty with reverse.




I always engane 2nd before reverse, this allows the inputshaft and outputshaft cogs to syncronise speeds before engagement.

Most gearboxes don't have a syncro on reverse gear and reverse will crunch unless the cogs are syncronised before engagment.

Vw's suffer with jumping out of reverse gear, the cause chipped reverse gear, caused by people enganging reverse and making it crunch by not doing the above.

Also helps by letting the vehicle stop completely before attempting to engage reverse.