Well my type R is stored in my garage... it is on some jack stands and does not have it's wheels on... Well when i started it today something very werid happend that kinda freaked me out ... The car was put in neutral when started ( I MADE SURE ) when i came out to look under the hood i notice the 2 front wheels were spining like as if it was in 1st gear i was like WTF.... it did this for about 5 mins... i tryed stoping them but they kept going .... i need help cuz i douno what is wrong ... last time i started the car on the jack stands it never did this ? is this normal ??? or am i going crazy ??? it was also making a werid sound kinda like a werid tick but also went away ... help me

 

Sounds normal to me.

 

yea sounds normal. same thing happened when i took off my brothers 2 front wheels on his rsx, i jus figured it was the vibration from the motor being on

 

i also noticed one more thing when i put the car in 3rd gear it seemed to sound different then the rest of the gears .. is that normal to ?

 

its normal.

 

i was thinking vibrations might be the cause also. iv never seen this happen before and you said it was spinning pretty fast at first, so that got me wondering.
hope there is nothing wrong.

 

yea it wasnt sping like really fast but fast enough for me to make this thread.... but i think it is normal i douno what else it could be

 

I always wondered why that happens. Anybody have an explaination? I dont think its vibration.

 

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yea i douno how vibration makes it spin that fast lol .. but i did notice it stoped once the car was all the way at normal idle

 

Shooting from the hip here. But when a car is put in neutral with a manual transmission, the clutch is engaged to the engine. Causing, and forgive me for not knowing what it's called in the transmission, the center drive gear to spin but not engage the rest of the gears.

Because the whole transmission is mostly in oil the spinning causes the oil to start turning and moving which starts the rest of the gears moving, which slowly starts the wheels moving.

I'm guessing it's sort of like a viscous limited slip differental..

 

ThePro that sounds like you hit it on the button, there's no way vibration can actually keep the wheels/or none spinning as fast as they do

 

it looks very weird lol i want to try it again

 

yea i should bust vtec in first gear and let it bounce off the rev limiter revs up fast!!!! ... jk dont want to mess anything up lol

 

yea most civics i work on when runing with both wheels in the air they will turn on their own in netural. freaked out at first but its normal.

 

haha sounds like your ok man. I guess you keep your wheels off for theft reasons?

 

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No tire flat-o spot-o!

 

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so the tires dont go flat and ..