my friend has a 97 integra with a h22 motor. he was having problems getting it into gear and now it want even go in gear. he said that when it was in gear it would have a lot of play in it from left to right and as time went on it got worse. could this be a bad shift linkage. pretty sure the tranny is good. ive just never heard of them going bad. it is a little frayed

 

they are cables, they stretch.