Hey guys... I have been lurking around these forums but haven't really posted anything until now. I bought a 92 CB7 automatic for winter use and i've been having some problems lately. I hope you guys can help me out.

Problems :

1. The car makes a "cluck cluck cluck" sound when i'm making slow sharp left and right turns. More when i make a left turn. The loudest when i'm in a parking lot going from one aisle to another or when i'm trying to park.
Have replaced drive shaft and tie rods lately. Check cv joints and other suspension parts and nothing looks unusual.

2. Biggest problem of all. My car skips gears. Its really really weird.

Things that happen
When i'm at a full stop at the light and when i hit the gas to go, it does have first gear but it skips to 3rd right away. When i do a rolling stop the car will not go back down to 1st, and will accelerate on 2nd and then go to 3rd and stays there. When i'm on the highway i'm going 110km/h my car will be at over 3k rpm, and i tried going 3rd gear and 4th gear but it does nothing so i automatically assume its only staying on 3rd gear because of the high rpm.
And then tonight when i'm driving home from work, i realized my tranny is normal. Goes from 1st to 2nd to 3rd then to 4th. It was fine the whole time until i hit the first speed hump on my street. Those ones that are slightly high unlike the speed bumps. After going through the speed hump, my car suddenly lost the gears like i described above.

Things that i think it might be related???

1.On a cold car when i shift from park to D its really hard to pull the shifter down. After its warmed up, it'll go back to normal. Could this affect it?
2.When i'm going through bumps, it feels like theres something in my engine bay is moving. It makes a creaking sound. When i go through speed bumps in parking lot and i avoid half the bump so i go through the bump with my right side and it still makes that sound on the left.
3.I have already replaced a broken front engine mount.
4. already replaced driver side drive shaft
5. Will the driver side engine mount relate to my problems?
6. will the shifter linkage cause this?
7. one of my friends told me it might be the center shaft????
8. I basically need a new tranny

Other then those problems, i absolutely love this car. I actually like driving this then driving a civic. Car's body is still in good shape and all the electrical still works. Good gas mileage too...

Thanks a lot for anyones input. I really want to fix this so i can keep driving it and don't have to sell or scrap it cuz i can't afford buying another car.

If i posted this in the wrong section, i'll appologize now and please move this to the correct forum, thanks mods.

 

Have you checked for any codes?

 

Weird my car randomly does this too. Most of the time it works fine, but sometimes it will stay in 2nd gear when i come to a complete stop. Then the D in the gauge will start flashing and it will stay like this until i turn the car off and restart it.

 

No check engine light or other lights. Also don't have access to a code reader. I went to a few shops and they keep telling me that they don't know. Its really bugging me since i need this car to get to work.

 

Its an obd1 you don't need a scan tool..just jump the 2terminals on the blue service connector by the passenger kick panel and turn the key n watch the check engine light blink

 

What up. Sorry to hear folks are having problems with our CB7. I love my 92 CB7 Coup.
For a good reference, check out CB7tuner.com. I have posted several post on this tranny issue. The CB7tuner member are relly hands on and knowledgable.
My tranny went to limp mode and my D light was flashing. Pulled codes, dont recal them, but to make a long story short. I swap out my tranny fluid (Wallmart dextron 111), it was brown and smelled burn. Detach my high and low hydrolic cylinders, cleaned, tested them out with two lead wires off my battery and one of them was defective, went to a junk yard and replaced it. Cleared the TCU codes. Naile the issue, spent six dollars out of my pocket.
It telling you this, because I took it to a mechanic, he told me I need it a tranny replace. What a crock of caca. My advice, have fun, get dirty and do some wreching. Its worth it.

 

Thanks a lot for the input.!! i will definitely check out the forum out that you suggested. Lets just hope those guys can help me out cuz i'm getting frustrated with the issue and starting to worry me about driving this to work.

 

Be patient. Once you nailed come back and post up your results, so others can learn from it.
Good luck.

 

Did you nail it?