my tranny re-build

[b.r.i.a.n.]

so as some of you know i messed up my tranny about a week and a half ago. 3rd gear had been grinding for a while and it was getting progressively worse over time. 4th gear took a shit on me and i was driving around with 1,2,3,5, and 6 for a few days till the tranny was taken down and examined.

i've ordered the sleeve set for gears 3-4. here are the pics of the tear down of the tranny and the damage.

taking the tranny down was the biggest mission ever. the ep3/dc5 chassis has such a small engine bay and not much space to work with. next time i'm just going to remove the entire engine. it makes life much easier.

i'll update this thread when i get the parts in later this week.

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good

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/8480/picture005qn8.jpg

not good!!! the picture sucks but you can see the edge where the teeth are worn down.

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[shadowmd]

nice. i need to do this. my 4th gear grinds after 8000rpms, but not before (so its fine as long as i don't bang 4th :mfrown: ). doin this when my new motor goes in.

[Gargola]

Interesting thread... any chance you can get bigger better pics?

[cantonep3]

wow to have the courage to do that. Good luck...

[thisisagame24]

nice mang.....hopefully you can get some bigger pics to see a bit better

[b.r.i.a.n.]

Interesting thread... any chance you can get bigger better pics?


nice mang.....hopefully you can get some bigger pics to see a bit better

yeah my point and shoot camera sucks. i'll try to get better pics. i'm still waiting for the parts to come in to continue working.

[wishbear]

how many miles on that tranny it look like who ever used it tore it up

[lldiesel386ll]

while your in there you should toss in a tsx 6th :mangel:
would there be enough torque in an a2 to make that reasonable? a 4.3 fd with that tall as sin 6th would have you cruising at some amazingly low rpms at 80+:mbiggrin:

[b.r.i.a.n.]

how many miles on that tranny it look like who ever used it tore it up

the swap had 105k miles according to the carfax report. i've put about 5k miles on the motor since the swap.

while your in there you should toss in a tsx 6th :mangel:
would there be enough torque in an a2 to make that reasonable? a 4.3 fd with that tall as sin 6th would have you cruising at some amazingly low rpms at 80+:mbiggrin:

yeah a tsx 6th would be great for cruising. the 06+ civic si's have the same 6th gear with a 4.7 final drive.

i don't have the money for that right now though. i just need to get the car running. according to the tracking number i should be getting the sleeve set today.

[b.r.i.a.n.]

well it has taken almost 2 weeks but ups finally dropped off the parts

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/3865/picture009yj5.jpg

i'll be finishing up this project sometime next week.

[civicswapper]

damn brian your still doing this. how is the project going

[b.r.i.a.n.]

damn brian your still doing this. how is the project going

well i just go the part yesterday. i'm in gainesville right now helping my sister move in.

i'm probably starting on this on monday.

[b.r.i.a.n.]

so i finished the rebuild last week wednesday. i drove it wednesday night and i had trouble the third gear. i couldn't downshift into third without major grinding. third would grind a lot.

so the tranny was taken apart again last friday. i found the problem. the honda dealer sent me the sleeve set with the newer style synchros. for some reason though, the newer style synchros were what was giving me problems. it wouldn't let the gear engage properly. so we replaced the new synchros with the new synchros. what broken and needed to be replaced was the ring that i posted a pic of in the first post.

there's a picture here with the newer style synchros and the older style side by side. the newer ones have a different design on the inside and it's black.

well enough talk. onto the pics!

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[benkieboy]

messing up with transmission scares the hell out of me but i need to rebuild mine too! i think i'll have a friend help me.

[EP3_U_SEE]

NICE... good information there