[Jimbocobra]

When temps are cool outside, it works longer, but if I really get on the throttle for a while and go to reverse it does grind. Since putting the heat shield on and adjusting the clutch for a longer throw etc..., it does seem to take longer to fail. By the end of last year, it would get so bad that at a stop light I would have to keep a foot on the brake to keep the car from rolling forward. If I took it out of 1st, I couldn't get back into it so as the clutch would begin to fail the car would creep forward even with the pedal completely depressed. There is definetly some relationship to heat, the hotter the weather the sooner the failure and the hotter the engine, the sooner the failure.