i was having problems with second gear so i put oil in the tranny. tranny was running fine.. then this morning i had no reverse nothing.. what do you think it could be.. and.. how can you tell a d series si tranny from the outside..

 

not sure how to tell the difference between transmissions.
but u are not suppossed to overfill a tranny with fluid...what do you mean u put oil in ur tranny?
i sure hope that u dont mean motor oil....

 

syncromesh.. and i put it in the fill when it started coming steadily out of plug i stopped

 

anyone else can help

 

I hope you dont mean that when it started to come out of the fill hole you stoppoed because that means you put in way to much fluid

 

somebody i dont feel like pushing my car out of parking spots

 

read in the haynes manual.. thats what it says to do.. and ive been doing this for years and had no problems.. just drained someout and still nothing.. tommorrow im going to drain some more. and see what happens.

 

bump

 

ok so u say u initally had problems with second gear...what was it doing?
and now none of the gears are working?

 

second gear, i was having problems getting it into gear.. now i have all gears and second gear is no prblem now.. but still no reverse..

 

do u shift into a gear and then reverse...or are u trying to go from neutral straight to reverse?
does it just grind and spit it back out or what?

 

neutrol to reverse and no grinding no nothing just wont go in.. looked at shift linkage lastnight and nothing was wrong with it.. i dont know what the deal is..
i was thinking that i put to much syncrhomesh in but when i was done doing all that it ran fine.. just starting happening yesterday morning

 

ur always suppossed to put it in gear first before u shift to reverse

 

ok but i tried that and nothing...

 

bump anyone

 

bump

 

Does it feel like it's going into reverse on the shift lever, or does it jam in any manner? Can you hear it actuating/clicking/clunking?

 

are you sure you took the fill bolt out and not the bolt that holds the reverse gear on inside the tranny

 

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but u are not suppossed to overfill a tranny with fluid...what do you mean u put oil in ur tranny?
i sure hope that u dont mean motor oil....
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Honda used to recommend 5W-30 SAE motor oil for our transmissions, back when they were being produced. Nowadays the dealers will tell you to use Honda MTF (Manual Transmission Fluid), but I've pulled apart 200,000-mile L3 transmissions that still looked new inside, and that were always run with "motor oil" in them...

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The transmission will hold 2 containers of Honda MTF (about 1.9 quarts, I believe it is). If you fill it using the proper transmission fill hole, the fluid (or oil) will just start to drip out when it's full.

Mike

 

buying tranny this weekend thanks for the information..

 

When you get the old one out, split the case and let us know what you found!

 

ok probably alot of metal bits inside

 

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The transmission will hold 2 containers of Honda MTF (about 1.9 quarts, I believe it is). If you fill it using the proper transmission fill hole, the fluid (or oil) will just start to drip out when it's full.

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THANK YOU. I was thinking that the whole time I was reading down the thread. The chiltons says you add 1.8 quarts after a flush and 1.9 when its completely empty. Around the time that 2nd quart of oil is empty it does start pouring out the fill hole. Most manuals tell you to use the 5w-30, I still do.

 

well have the new tranny in welded diff.. runs good but today for some odd reason didnt want to go into 3rd 4th 5th didnt try reverse wanted to get it home.. so im driving about 30 miles in 2nd gear and when i shut the car off.. i was trying to get it into those above gears and it did.. easily.. when i cracked the case to weld the diff. the tranny looked brand new ran great (no grinds felt like a new tranny) but now this is happening im going to pull the tranny out and see what the hell is going on.. and when i was trying to put it in them gears it felt like them gears wont even there no sound no clicking nothing any suggestions on what the hell is going on..
and i wasnt pushing in the clutch it would make a sound like something was scraping inside the tranny.. i have a act four puck and act prolite flywheel..

 

You could have hit something and messed up your linkage. With all these tranny problems have you replaced the bushings on the shift linkage? Do you use the bitch pin? some ppl use a nut and bolt and that can give you a lot of play and make it almost impossible to get into gear.