It’s been a couple days since I wrapped up the driveline swap in the bird.  I had mostly just put a few miles on it putting around in town while getting back in the hang of driving a stick.  Today I took her to work and while cruising down the interstate doing 75, I was only running at 1500RPM in 6th gear.  By having the auto gearing in the diff, it is going to make for a gas sipper at highway speeds regaining some of those lost MPGs.

I also had the first snafu with the new setup this evening.  I backed out of the driveway and gave it a tap in first to make it up to the stop sign at my corner.  Then all of a sudden the clutch was like a rock and I couldn’t get it into gear.  It was a good thing I was still next to my house so I pushed her back to the driveway and into the garage.  I was dreading that it was the cut rate slave cylinder that I had picked up from Autozone and did not feel like pulling the trans again so soon.  I put the front end in the air and opened the bleeder valve to see if I could relieve some of the pressure.  No go.  I was going to pull the master line out of the slave and check it but when I went to disconnect the fitting, it just popped out without any effort.  I must not have seated it well and I was lucky that it was working at all these past couple days.  Re-seated the fitting and all was good.  Went for a bit of a test drive and no further problems.  I am enjoying being back in a stick shift so far.  I just have to be careful not to blow up the 10 bolt before I have the chance to save up for an S60 rear end.