5th Gear

[-DWM-]

...Sings gently for about 500 miles before it goes out.

[MessyHonda]

try some honda MTF and or save up for a new gear or trans swap

[bullard123]

Yeah and make sure its has 10w motor oil in the tranny and mnot gear oil...Thats what happened to my 5th gear when previous owner decided to do that

[-DWM-]

It's already gone. I remember the first time I changed an axle right when I got the car and drained out GL5. Gotta drive home from Michigan in 4th. 19MPG here I come!

[-DWM-]

try some honda MTF and or save up for a new gear or trans swap
Oh I have the monies, but a hand injury is keeping me from doing any mechanical work.

[charliekuney]

...but a hand injury is keeping me from doing any mechanical work.

Stop doing that or you'll go blind.

[A18A]

^I lolled^

[Civic Accord Honda]

i lold too ^


and yeah for me it sang loudly for about 3 minutes then went out... then 4th sang for a minute and went out and then 3rd sang for 30 seconds and went out and then 2nd grinded all the way to the parking space and then when i towed it home revesre locked up going in my driveway :lol:

[w261w261]

You can access and replace 5th gear from a cover on the tranny, no need to pull it I believe. Do a search for the posts that tell you how.

[bullard123]

^^ that would be cool if thats the case

[bullard123]

I bought my 5th gear brand new from honda dealership...the part didnt cost that much but the labor will kill you

[AccordB20A]

yeah 5th gear is the easy one you dont even need to take the box apart

[lostforawhile]

^^ that would be cool if thats the case

it is, don't use oil any more, use the Honda manual transmission oil, it came out after the car was made, much better, or redline manual oil, or syncromesh. they all have special friction modifiers to make the syncros work better, plain oil doesn't have these. when the car was built motor oil was the best choice, but the other oils are an upgrade. the syncros need a specific amount of friction to work

[Civic Accord Honda]

15w40 delo diesel oil works good in transmissions running it in the accord helped alot but if u have grinding go to syncromesh im going to be doing that soon but the delo is much better then standerd 10w30

[-DWM-]

Well my car made it home OK. I'll be opening it up so I can see that all the teeth on 5th are peined smooth.

[-DWM-]

Stop doing that or you'll go blind.

I wear glasses and I have to shave my palms weekly. :eek5:

Actually, I crushed my left ring finger in the sliding door of my van. It was pretty gross, and painful. I have 2 pins going through my finger right now, and I'm out of work because of it.

[charliekuney]

^ Damn. I slammed my hand in my sister's '70 Camaro when I was like five. Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrsnap.

[Cool story, bro.]

[phrenology]

Let me know how it goes with fixing the 5th gear, cause I have the same issue, and I don't want to pull apart the box if I don't have to.

[Dr_Snooz]

Check the splines on the shaft real good while you have the gear off. Sometimes they get munched and if they do, you'll have to replace the shaft which is a whoooole lot more work.

[Ichiban]

Remember that one of the locknuts is left hand thread, before you cut it off and have to machine a new one like I did.

[-DWM-]

Check the splines on the shaft real good while you have the gear off. Sometimes they get munched and if they do, you'll have to replace the shaft which is a whoooole lot more work.

I'm not looking forward to that.

[Dr_Snooz]

Most of the time the splines are fine. Just check it while you have it open.