SleepyHatchZ6

i was drivin to revere yesterday with my friend and its like a 30min drive and 5th gear kept poppin out i had to hold it the whole ride and the higher the rpms the harder it was to hold in he has a 98 coupe wit a b20 and a b16 trans anyone know how i could fix this witout tearing apart the tranny anyone?? HELP!!

allmotorEG-SI

Sounds like syncros to me. You'll probably have to tear it apart. Replacing it might be easier if you can find one cheap enough. Just hope it doesn't start getting stuck in gear. That's the biggest pain to deal with.

SleepyHatchZ6

thanks man anyone else got ides somebody told me the detent?? or something like that

ILcrxsi1

popping out of gear is synchros

unsungfate

i have this problem. i replaced my tranny. but kept my old one and gonna rebuild it myself. mostly for personal exp.

rebuilding it cost about the same prize as another b16 tranny.... so up to you

ekb16

iTrader: (1)

u could be low on tranny fluid..i had this happen to me b4 when i bought a motor from HMO and forgot to change the tranny fluid and didnt noe y it kept on popping out of 5th..change it and never pops out anymore

SleepyHatchZ6

ya its weird everyone told me syncros or new tranny but i just got back from filling up the fluid and driving it its fine now but because it had no fluid for so long reverse kinda screwed up i think its cuz reverse is the only gear not syncroed therefor the gear itself probable got chewed up a little but ya problem gone now thanks EK

IndySporty

You're lucky! I had that happen on 2 trannies and both of them lost 5th before I was able to put more fluid in them.

allmotorEG-SI

i had same problem and fluid didn't help me. You're lucky.

unsungfate

same here. fluid didn't help me out...

and 1st gear isnt syncrod either.

thats why down shifting into 1st is so hard compared to 2nd-4th

AnotherSI

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ILcrxsi1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">popping out of gear is synchros</TD></TR></TABLE>

syncros match the speed of the shafts when shifting....they dont hold the forks. detents hold it in gear.

Syndacate

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by allmotorEG-SI &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Sounds like syncros to me. You'll probably have to tear it apart. Replacing it might be easier if you can find one cheap enough. Just hope it doesn't start getting stuck in gear. That's the biggest pain to deal with.</TD></TR></TABLE>

No it doesn't. Though he probably will have to tear it apart.

Doesn't sound the synchros at all, sounds like the 5th gear fork is bent. Miss any shifts lately?

unsungfate

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Syndacate &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

No it doesn't. Though he probably will have to tear it apart.

Doesn't sound the synchros at all, sounds like the 5th gear fork is bent. Miss any shifts lately?</TD></TR></TABLE>

yes... i missed shifted 3rd pretty bad while racing the motor... i was used to driving a scion tc and my civi came with a piece of **** short shifter and worn out bushings making it VERY vauge feel in the tranny... so it WAS me.. i was thinking maybe i got it that way and he didn't tell me. oh well.

ILcrxsi1

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by AnotherSI &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

syncros match the speed of the shafts when shifting....they dont hold the forks. detents hold it in gear.</TD></TR></TABLE>I know what synchros do and don't ask me to explain how it works because I can't, but popping out of gear means the synchros are going bad. Everyone knows that. It's pretty much common knowledge.

edit: to be fair it could be the detent too but the synchro for that gear is much more likely on a honda manual trans.


Modified by ILcrxsi1 at 7:28 AM 8/26/2008

longshot

put transmission fluid in it. itll stop.

00b20vtecoupe

going to revere huh... stay away from marsh road haha yea b16 tranny syncros suck *** but i has a 3rd and 4th gear set replaced on mine for cheap...

Pothole987

How bad are the shifter bushings? i've heard of some cars popping out of 5th because the bushings where that wore out.