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it dose it once in a while.. tonight was the most odd.. right when i went from secound to 3erd with the clutch all the way in.. it grinded a bit when i went our of secound. i also been hearing a little whine. nicking nose from where the shift linkage is. anyone know why this can be happing?
the car has 182K miles and its been 15-20Kmiles sence i put honda tranny oil in it.

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checked motor mounts?

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Drain Tranny fluid and look for sparkles :P.
steve

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Probably low on fluid.....or your syncros/shift arms are taking a ----. :P
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honda tranny oil is your prob, to thick

i had a 3rd gear grind when i first stuck in my Si tranny
put honda oil in it grinded 3rd everytime any rpm and sometimes 4th

drained it, stuck in pennzoil synchromesh and now it shifts like honey

its a temp fix but it will work

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Really? I have a hellish 3rd gear grind followed by a slight 4th gear grind. I'm running some GTX 10w-30 in it. You think a different oil will actually fix that? It was running on some thick ass gear oil before I got it(previous owner didn't know any better).
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Mine has that nasty 3rd gear grind too. I haven't changed the oil in a while, so i think i'll do that when all this damn snow melts and see if it helps any. Would slightly thicker be better?

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yea it helped, the 3rd gear grind was so bad it would do it as low as 2000 rpms and even after pressing the clutch multiple times and waiting to stick it in gear and it was a ROUGH grind, honda oil is super thin and the basically the gear oil is great for getting the tranny to slow down and getting the synchros to do their job better, or thats the guess, ive been running it about 10k now, works great

ive also heard good stuff about other synchromesh oils, espically in chattery LSD trannys

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My cars wouldnt be right without a 3rd gear grind. I destroy them so fast I have really just given up. I have so many dead L3's

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i put 70w/130 gear oil in my honda tranny all the time :-p

till i got hella cheap and didnt care and put 10w/30 wal-mart brand oil

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so thiker oil... i know the motor mounts are ok. for the shift linkage.. is a little play good or should it be stiff ?

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you aren't supposed to run thick oil in honda trannies, you're supposed to run 10w-30.

My tranny is about to die, it growls and i can feel it through the shifter. It was low on oil because it leaked : ( oh well, it's a cx tranny anyways

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i just decided to check my fluid level in my tranny and it took almost a whole quart of 10w30 :o, i guess thats why it has been so hard to get into second and when i woul djiggle the shifter in neutral i would hear it clunking around in the tranny. it's a dx tranny anyways and i have a new ex one i'm about to put in once it warms up.

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who gives a ---- what weight you use? it really isnt gonna make 2 fucks off a difference ask a mistabone or anyone that knows anything, thicker oil isnt going to hurt a tranny

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are you sure about that? I don't see a difference in running thicker oil and overfilling with oil, and i have heard overfilling oil can damage things. So how could putting in too thick of oil not hurt the gears, especially if it was cold weather. Just looking for a clear explanation.

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who said anything about over filling? and its called viscosity look it up www.howstuffworks.com

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thicker oil, esp. GEAR OIL will kill a tranny........

The oil ended up not making it into the roller bearings under the gearsets. Smoked them.

3rd gear grinds on a 88-00 SOHC Tranny, cure is in this order

shifter bushings, motor mounts, 1-2 shifter fork.

If you have a 4th gear grind also, then likely you broke 3-4 shifter fork. I've only seen two of these.

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---- you bone ;D

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I've got soo many pics of dead trannys, I cannot find them all!!!!!!!!!

So I give you this...........

http://www.bettendorf.com/~mrbone/pi...DOAtranny1.jpg

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I ble the diff out in my l3 tranny, and I suspect it was cause I was running low on fluid. I'm gona say that stock honda oil (10w30) is the best ---- to run, The race teams even run it. ;)

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didnt say it wasnt, i was just saying how to temporarily fix, obviously any tranny grinding more than a fucked up shift is gonna need a rebuild or replacing anyways

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I wasn't replying to you, ::)

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You blew the diff out from doing too many one wheel peels.......the spider gears the eat through the diff pin, causing a explosion.........

Looks something like this.........you can see the broken diff pin in the lower right.........

http://www.bettendorf.com/~mrbone/pi...y/P3130001.JPG

another

http://www.bettendorf.com/~mrbone/pi...nny%20boom.jpg
non harden diff pin used in 88-91 SOHC and 90-93 DOHC trannys..........

http://www.bettendorf.com/~mrbone/pi.../bad%20pin.jpg

The better diff pin that was factory hardend........

http://www.bettendorf.com/~mrbone/pi...good%20pin.jpg

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what cars/years come with The diff pin that was factory hardend?

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yes the diff did explode on a 4500rpm full throttle launch, but I suspect it was cause I ran it low on oil for about 50 miles. It had a really really loud bearing noise, sounded worse then any wheel bearing I've ever seen, it was like that for about 5000 miles then it finally let go. pieces of the diff and tranny case are still inbeded in my frame 8)

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wow homo's tear apart the tranny= not hard if i can do it and replace the syncros they r like 100 bucks, ---- while your at it do the bearings to.

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wtf are you babbling about?