1995 ZR1 Transmission Really Stiff...Sometimes

[RichieDMD]

I have had my ZR1 for about a year now and I drive it occasionally. I have noticed that some days the transmission is super stiff. It seems to be more in the morning when I'm leaving the house and on my way to work so I just chalked it up to being cold. I don't live far from work so I don't think it even fully warms up in the morning.

But some days it's worse than others. Planning on driving the car this week I have left it out over night. Yesterday I drove it and it was a little hard shifting in the morning (I find that on the way to work I often get a little grind noise going into 3rd). But this morning it was even worse. It was so stiff I couldn't even get it into reverse to back it out of the driveway. Using both hands I couldn't seem to get it in gear. After a minute or two of struggling with it I put it back into first and shut it off...I drove my 2002 Camaro to work instead. It was a little hard to get it back into first but not bad.

I understand that high performance cars from this era tend to have challenging transmissions when cold...but it seems some days this is more than that. Any thoughts?

Car has 38K miles on it.

Thanks.