[ORBlues]

>>Thanks guys. Yeah, it breaks my heart to see a guy park a show room stock car or a Koni car because " the synchros are toast". To quote Stevie Dee , just "DTB", drive the *itch. Sometimes the synchro chews up a gear, but that is rare, they are only made of brass usually.<<

Not sure if you are being too hard on guys with sychros. Once the friction surface is gone (which does the synchonization rather than the blip) you need to treat it like a non-synchro, but with a much smaller margin of error. The teeth are so fine it can seem almost impossible and once the teeth are damaged it is all over. Even if dog rings are rounded off, you might be able to keep going by holding it in gear - sometimes.....

Of course if you double clutch with a syncho box it they will last almost forever as you take most of the load off the friction surfaces.

ChrisZ