Bakeoff

I just did an auto to manual swap on my 93 sol, and now the tranny is leaking at the passenger side axle. WTF is the problem?

InevitableRace

There are seals on the tranny and you might have the wrong axle or the wrong seal or the seal is bad.tell me more info and ill try to help.like what year tranny and what year axles?

Bakeoff

the tranny is from a 92 civic si, but I used the axles from my 93 sol si auto. I'm not sure the axles should matter since they looked exactly like the others. I used the ones from the auto cause I had just replaced one. The tranny has 70K on it. How tough are the seals to replace? do I ahve to pull the damn tranny AGAIN?


[Modified by Bakeoff, 1:48 AM 5/26/2002]

InevitableRace

the seals are easy as **** they just pop out you do have to take the axles out.but you do have the wrong axles because when ever you call a parts place for a axle they ask you is it auto or manual and all you have to do is get the seals of the auto trans and put them in the manual trans and they can be takin out with a screw driver.put the screw driver behind the seal and pop it out and put the other seal in.lightly with the back side of a hammer.

InevitableRace

the back side of the hammer ment the handle

Bakeoff

the thing with the axles is weird. If you call about any part, they ask which model it is. But when I asked them to check to see if the del sol S and the Si had the same axles, they said yes. But now that I know it's just that seal, I should be ok. Hoe much are they, and where is it? right inside the hole for the axle? Hell, I did the swap, you'd think I could figure this **** out too... Sorry, I'm tired of working on this car, and finding parts for it...

InevitableRace

yes you can find it its right there when you take out the axles.and dont get mad at the car i have been doing this for 5 yrs and every time i get mad i want to sell it.hehe.did you do a b16a swap?if you did then go to honda and ask them for the 99-00 si axle seals.they are like 6-12 dollars each i think i dont know the price i get this **** at cost.

Bakeoff

nah, I just bought this as a second car with the stock d16z6 in it... It was an auto, and I slammed the tranny on a huge bump on the freeway (tells you something about MN roads). So I was quoted 400 for a used auto (thinking I would sell the car to my sis who doesn't know how to drive a stick) but I could get another d16z6 with 5 spd tranny and ecu and shift linkage for 300. So I got all the other parts for 75 bucks and was done... Or so I thought. Well, at least it's only one more part. Thanks for your help.

InevitableRace

if you have aol im me its EG6CIVICSI92.and ill help you more.