As some of you know I just got my Type-R back on the road after it being down for a few years. While it was torn apart I decided to just go ahead and buy a brand new OEM ITR transmission which was purchased from Las Vegas Acura. Well now the car has been back on the road for about 800mi and I've got a lovely bearing noise coming from the tranny. At first I was thinking "oh it's GOT to be the throw out bearing" but putting the car in neutral and pressing the clutch in the sound instantly goes away.

I'm guessing since the transmission was purchased such a long time ago that I'm pretty much screwed correct?

Two years of the car being down and I FINALLY get it back on the road after tons of headaches and now this. I swear I want to drive it off a cliff.

 

are you sure thats not just the transmission being loud? my trans has been loud as hell since day one and never had a problem until just recently after tripling the horsepower. even after replacing all bearings its still loud and coasting in neutral its quiet. but I guess anything is possible.

 

it would either be ur input shaft bearing and or thrust bearing. This is not transmission related, this is clutch related

are u using ur old clutch??

i have the same problem, mine would have been covered under warranty if it was tranny related

 

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The input shaft bearing is definitely transmission related.

 

Seems to be a rather prevalent problem with the DC2. I can only imagine how pissed one must be after purchasing a brand spanking new transmission, only to find it's time to open her up already.

And I thought I had it bad after encountering the problem with only 28k on the clock.

My question is this (to the tranny gurus here) IF I leave the bearing in its current condition, what risks am I potentially taking ?

 

Well, my tranny appears to have the same audible symptoms of one with a noisy input shaft bearing... whirring sound with the clutch pedal out. I've been driving mine this way for several thousand miles; asking for trouble, perhaps, but the noise hasn't become the supposed loud chirping of one going out.

Anyway, check out this recent thread (ignore the thread title) and the posts from iheartintegras. I haven't had a chance to try this yet, but it sounds promising, and definitely something to try before opening the trans so soon.

 

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but the noise hasn't become the supposed loud chirping of one going out.

Anyway, check out () I haven't had a chance to try this yet, but it sounds promising, and definitely something to try before opening the trans so soon. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Same here, actually it's been over 20,000 miles in it's current condition and the whinning seems to have stayed the same, in tone and sound level ! Go figure ? I hope I'm not pressing my luck.

I've currently got my tools out already in hoping I can somewhat band-aid it, in greasing the release fork as mentioend in that thread. Need to stop being lazy actually. Out I go ! Let's see what happens !

 

Well thankfully I don't have any noise while driving. It's ONLY when I'm sitting in neutral do I hear any sort of noise. I guess I'll try the release fork lube trick for the heck of it.

If that doesn't fix it I'm just going to say "F it" and roll with it until it blows.

 

Good luck guys.

 

How'd you fare AA ?

After some thorough greasing, I'm happy to report that the whinning noise has substantially decreased. Now I'm still weary though driving on an apparently bad ISB, but oh well, what can happen right ?

Thanks H-T

 

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After some thorough greasing, I'm happy to report that the whinning noise has substantially decreased. Now I'm still weary though driving on an apparently bad ISB, but oh well, what can happen right ?

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I haven't tried greasing yet. I'm really thinking that it just CAN'T be a bad ISB on a brand new transmission.

I was reading a thread were some people say that it can still be the TO bearing even when you press the clutch in and the noise stops. The reason is because even when the clutch pedal is up and the TO bearing is doing "nothing" it is still resting lightly against the pressure plate and free wheeling. The TO bearing doesn't just slide completely away from the pressure plate and stop moving because if it did there would be big gap of loose pedal play which makes complete sense to me. What is possibly happening with mine is that the TO bearing is only making the sound when it's spinning under no load. When I press the pedal and engage the TO bearing hard against the pressure plate it puts load on the bearing and stops the noise.

One person said a way to check it was that if the car is making the sound in neutral with the pedal up what you do is quickly jab the pedal to the floor. If you hear the sound wind down slowly then yes it's most likely the input shaft bearing as the transmission slowly (slowly probably isn't the best word but you know what I mean) comes to a stop. If the sound instantly vanishes as soon as you hit the pedal then there is a chance that it's the TO bearing.

I'm at work right now so I won't be able to try this little test until I get off.

 

I have the same exact grinding sound. This sound only started after I had the car parked for like 3 months and its not going away. Hopefully someone can bring some clear light to this topic!!!

 

Welcome to the club.....

Hmmmmm....this is some interesting stuff. I've got the bird sound that instantly goes away once I touch the clutch too. I was planning on cracking open the tranny next month and replacing all bearings but maybe I should try lubing some stuff first?