Tranny help please!!!

[Tdurr]

So i got a 88 accord LXi and its pretty cool... but thats besides the point...

It had about 26xxmiles on a rebuild on everything. Now a few months ago when I took it out for a test run after putting in a oil pressure gauge(lol i kno rice) and I suddenly had no 4+5th gear. There was this clicking sound when idling and when it was in gear + on the gas(just to keep speed and flooring it). I checked the tranny fluid and it was black+metallic. Then when it was off I went threw the gears and when i put it into 5th it got STUCK!! I get pissed get it outta 5th and then I parked the car for 4ish months. Id start it up every-now and then just cuz.... Well a few days ago i just sat in it and ran threw the gears messing a round and started it today. Well id didnt hear the clicking at first. Then I drove around the neighborhood and 4th was back and im like so i put it into 5th and its just putting along!! Im freaking out wtf is going on? Should I take the tranny out and see if something is floating around or loose? Or should I just rebuild the tranny completely?? Im soo confused....
~TDR

[Demon1024]

what type of oil you have in it supposed to be like 30w oil. id grab up another tranny from a junkyard for cheap if possible and rebuild it.At first i thought you killed 4/5 gears but??? thats weird man never rebuilt one myself. someone here can help you tho

[Tdurr]

it it has some 30w. I dono... im thinking of draining it, putting some thicker oil in there and see what happens..... Cuz yea its dumb lol. But i dont got any $$ right now for a spair tranny(student and fixing a rx7) so yea... hopein this will be a easy fix, but it deff dont look like it...

[russiankid]

Either use 10w30 or Honda MTF. I heard using 20w50 also is fine. I have Honda MTF and it works great. Make sure you get it as full as possible.

[Tdurr]

yea 10w-30. Had honda's MTF from the dealership(when i said full rebuild i wasnt kidding lol) but one axle went bad and i went cheap and used some napa oil. then.... a few weeks later it happened....

[russiankid]

yea 10w-30. Had honda's MTF from the dealership(when i said full rebuild i wasnt kidding lol) but one axle went bad and i went cheap and used some napa oil. then.... a few weeks later it happened....

Oh. Just get some Honda MTF and you should be fine.

[Tdurr]

How many quarts? I'm too lazy to look it up...

[russiankid]

How many quarts? I'm too lazy to look it up...

I bought 5 quarts and used 3, so 4 quarts just incase.

[Oldblueaccord]

errr hopefully im wrong but I dont think new oil will fix stripped gears but good luck!


wp

[AZmike]

2.5 quarts for the manual transmission--maybe a little more if you had it completely apart. Either way 3 is more than enough.

[russiankid]

errr hopefully im wrong but I dont think new oil will fix stripped gears but good luck!


wp

I don't think they are stripped because he said after a while they worked?

[Tdurr]

yea they deff started to work again... I wanna go drain it now but i got no tranny fluid... Im gonna get something to just run it threw and wash out anything thats left... then im gonna put in some good oil... I need some $$ bad....

Any other ideas on wut could have caused this???
~TDR

[russiankid]

You can get some 10w30 oil, use that for a bit and then get Honda MTF.

[Tdurr]

lol well... you see... i cant drive(suspended license) so I cant really go and pick up stuff when i want(no reliable ride for me!) But would royal purple MTF work fine? I love royal purple...

[russiankid]

lol well... you see... i cant drive(suspended license) so I cant really go and pick up stuff when i want(no reliable ride for me!) But would royal purple MTF work fine? I love royal purple...

Should work.

[Tdurr]

So right now im draining the tranny fluid, and OMG! Sooo much metal shavings. I also got a magnet and stuck it in the rain hole and found a sliver of metal about as long as a large paper clip. Yea i poured some oil in and just let it drain right out(tryn to flush it and soo much black/metal crap. Yea ill prob end up rebuilding my tranny by the next 4 months..... this sucks.. alot... ill have pics of the oil color and the sliver soon....

[russiankid]

Definitely in need of a rebuild.

[Tdurr]

Okay pics, at first this was found,



Then i kept fishing and found this:



and pulled like 50+ magnet tips full of this:



yea thats my life lol.... oh and this i found this on my oil pressure gauge...

So i put on a extra on i had and this happened while i was tighting it


i hate hondas...
& Sunpro Gauge stuff FTMFL

[russiankid]

Those shavings don't look to good.

[Tdurr]

none of it does... lol

[russiankid]

Time to get a junkyard tranny!

[Tdurr]

lol i need a job first! im broke as a joke.

[russiankid]

lol i need a job first! im broke as a joke.

Ahh...time for a job hunt!

[ghettogeddy]

so did you have the tranny rebuilt before or did you just do like a coolant overhaul if a shop rebuilt it id take it back and chew them out a new ass hole

[88Accord-DX]

Crack that transmission open & no telling what else is laying in there. Here is pretty good link on finding a used transmission once you get a job.

http://car-part.com/index.htm