Well I went to my dealer and asked the tech if he would check it out and take me for a drive with him. (without plugging in my VINN into the system) So we get in the car and he goes through the gears with the engine off and not pushing in the clutch. Right away he says it feels like it's binding going into 2nd but has a much more positive feel going into the remaining gears. He asked who installed the shifter. I told him the engineer who designed it at the Hurst facility in Chatsworth. We go for a drive and he said it doesn't feel like it's going all the way into second and it takes more effort than usual. He said I should take it back to Hurst and have them re-adjust/align it. He said it doesn't feel like the clutch assembly or the synchros, it feels like it's not going all the way into second, which is probably the reason it's grinding. I really don't want to drive all the way back to Hurst to have Kenji look at it, but that might be my only option at this point.
