g'day dave my auxr6 has a similar problem hard getting into 1st &2nd gear but also really noisy as well.when going from 1st to second thers a clunking noise i was sure it sounded like it was coming from the diff. took it back to ford and they reckon the noise is normal under load and it is just a noisy box i reckon ford must know theres some sort of problem and are just playing dumb how could a n