Never the same problem. First tranny was acutally a junkyard one that I had for 18 months but it grinded 2nd gear the entire time. My friend was upgrading to a tremec for his combo and sold me his t5 cheap and it had bene freshened up twice for the hell of it. Well 3 weeks later, the front gears on the main and the counter shaft chewed each other apart.

This one I left the factory short throw shifter that comes with the tranny on there just incase I had problems such as this and they might denys giving me anything since I switched them. I really think this was just a bad one, it should have lasted way longer than this.