Well, long story short...The car made some knocking sounds about 1500 feet from work the other day. Pulled it into the parking lot, worked my day away and when I came out to head home the sound was no longer there.

Fast forward about a week later...
Driving the car from the mall to home and I notice n intermittent high pitched whine. About 10 minutes later I can smell burning oil...I immediately think it's the backhoe in front of me struggling up the hill. I think to myself "thank God my car doesn't burn oil..." Then I look into the rear-view to see a huge cloud of blue smoke following me. Pull into the driveway and realize I have leaked some sort of fluid all the way up the driveway. Jack the car up onto axle stands, crawl underneath and discover I am leaking oil from my tranny seal, intermediate shaft side. Go to Honda, order seal, wait for seal.

Fast forward to today...
After work I jacked the car up onto axle stands and have at it...
I work my way through removing nuts and bolts and get the intermediate shaft out of the way. Pop the seal out and that's when I realized I had bigger issues on my hands than just changing a seal.





Hmmm...missing some ***** for this bearing...






Not even sure what this collar-type thing does, but it looks pretty chewed up


What I found of the now non-existent bearing


These words have never been more true...


And this pretty much sums up how I feel



So at this point, I'm thinking I will just pickup a limited slip transmission. My throwout bearing makes noise every now and again, and 3rd gear has a dirty grind so this will be a good opportunity to have a low mileage LSD setup installed.

Moral of my story...if your transmission starts making noise, and then leaks oil like a bastard, you have your work cut out for you...

 

Holy high hell these pictures are huge...sorry guys!

 

i would love one of those stickers man, holds true in every uniiversity town where kids are driving new GTOs and camaros

 

I have a couple more kicking around somewhere...PM me...

 

do u usually beat on the car

 

that sucks but on the other hand paradise blue green pearl ftw!

 

Moved to transmission and drivetrain for better responses.

 

Looks like you regularly dump the clutch, diff bearings generally do not just blow up. Pull it apart and make sure you didn't break anything else or fatigue/crack the casing.

 

I'd hazard a guess that the final drive is probably toast. If it wasn't popping out of 5th from lack of fluid yet the gears might be ok.

 

I might have dumped the clutch 20 times since owning the car.

It has never popped out of any gear, but did have a slight 3rd gear grind that developed progressively worse since I have owned the car.

I'm going to pull the tranny and have it swapped with a Limited Slip setup.