First gear is synchronized. If it were not you'd have to come to a complete
stop before putting it in first. If you get a grinding in your prelude, you
may have something wrong.

" Matt Craig" <mcsk8er360@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> try shifting into 2nd & then reverse, 1rst isn't a synchronized gear. my
87
> si prelude is like that
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> matt
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