comming home last night my tranny started to grind everytime i went into 5th gear so im guessing my sycro is taking a **** so my question is what can i do. some people told me to do a tranny flush and drive for a 100 miles and flush it out again and that i should be fine which i really dont beleive. but im going to take the car to acura today and find out if i still have engine and powertrain warranty its a 01 with 18000 miles does ne one know here if i still got warranty and what do u guys think?

 

i would try the tranny flush first, but what do i know

 

Are you having any issues getting the car into reverse? Is only 5th affected?

 

only 5th but i talked to acura and they said that they might warranty it on good will act cause the car has so little miles i dont know yet fir sure but if they dont what do u think it is daveb

 

bump

 

yea so i got the call from acura and they said no they would not be able to warranty the tranny cause it was well over a year over since the warranty expired. so now im going to do a tranny flush today 2 quarts of normal mt oil and a half a bottle of lucas tranny oil. and drive a 100 miles and do another flush again. and just put honda mtf again but sombody else told me to put ( i forgot whats its called its purple something) ummm.... so what do u guys think, will this fix the problem or would i have to put new syncro's

 

do the flush and see

 

well i did the flush and still grinds when i shift from 4th to 5th if i pass 3000 rpms but i was talking to somebody today and they said that they think its my forks that are messed up not the syncro. but i was thinking that if the forks are messed up then i would have play and it would grind in all the gears. so does anyone else have any ideas so i can narrow down the problem b4 i start ripping apart the tranny and have the wrong parts

 

Ive heard of that GM Syncromesh Friction Modded stuff works well,search for it, its all over here

 

yea i know about the sycromesh but here are my thoughts on that this is a fluid not made for our cars, plus it seems like they only hide the problems not solve them cause the quite the gear box and then the problems come back i hear. so thats y im kind of iffy about putting that in my tranny

 

time for a jdm 4.7 tranny

 

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JDM is 4.4 yo.

 

96-97 FD is 4.4

98+ FD is 4.7

 

A flush is not going to do anything. Anyone who says so is a retard too. A grind is a mechanical failure where there is wear. No fluid is going to help, maybe a day or so, but will not be fixed until you replace the 5th syncro set and gear and i would replace the fork also, alot of time grinds start from bent forks. If you need it fixed pm me. I am an Acura Technician and i have a shop on the side.

 

^ good info thanks. How does the fork get bent.

 

slamming into gear or forcing when it does not want to engage. A lot of times clutch problems will lead to gears being hard to engage. Either a bad clutch or master cyl. are common causes. Then you force it and bend the fork a little bit and it starts tearing up those syncros.