New to honda, new to the forum. Have a 1990 Honda Civic si hatch d16a6, currently pulling the trans to do a clutch install. I have everything out of the way/disassembled and i am ready to start removing the mounts and bellhousing bolts but I am having trouble with teh speedo cable. I removed the clip around the cable and the 10mm down by the cable. I tried to pull it out but nothing was budging so I am getting a little tired now and I yanked on the cable, well the rubber came out, and now there is just silver bare cable exposed, and the cable still wont come out of the sensor. Do I need to replace the cable now or am I ok, how do I get the cable/sensor out of the trans so I can pull this da*m thing!

 

Well I got a drink and walked back outside and looked at the cable. I realized that the cable must have pulled out of the cluster. I pulled the cable through the "insulation" or cover that coems out of the firewall so at least I am free to pull the trans as the cable is no longer connected. However, what is the likelihood that I broke something in the cluster? will it be as simple as just reconnecting the cable at the cluster or did I break soemthing by pulling it out? Should i bother trying to get the "speed sensor"
or whatever it is the cable goes to out of the trans when I get it out or should I just leave it in and put the cable back in the cluster when I reinstall?

 

Try and get a new speed sensor for it and another cable, all from a junkyard. You can push it back in but make sure you put the locking washer in when you push wire all the way behind cluster or else it will spin itself out.

 

why do i need a new speed sensor? dont i just need to put the cable back into the cluster? I never actually got the sensor out of the trans when I left the shop I had the trans out I ran into a big problem with the trans mounts bolts were cross threaded by the previous owner. Anyways, is there really anything I could have hurt in the speed sensor thats in the transmission? what part of that actaully pulls out of the trans, the whole thing from the base comes out? or just the cable? The cable is still attached to the sensor in the trans so would I just need to route the cable back up to the cluster through the rubber after I get the trans back in and hook it back up? How does the cable actually attach to the cluster? Sorry if i am being a newb I just want to have everything set for this thing tommorrow so I can get it done and get it off the lift so my boss doesnt kill me on monday

 

Nevermind, did some looking for myself and I realize I probably pulled the cable out of the "plug" that goes to the back of the cluster. I realize now I need a new cable, but why do I I need a complete new speed sensor?

 

Unless you can pull the cable out of it you will need one handy just in case.

 

no junkyards around my area seem to have these cars, looked online cant seem to find the VSS new anywhere. any recommendation?

 

When you pull out the cluster pull the black part of the speedo cable out with it and disconnect it with your hand under the part being disconnected a tiny little lock washer will fall out, pull black part back into engine bay, push wire all the way back in then open little silver piece on wire part to lock the black cover back onto speed sensor wire. By this time speed sensor wire should stick out a bit where it goes into cluster and put the little lock washer back onto it and put cluster back together, and hope it doesn't spin itself off the black cover.

 

The cable inside the sleeve will easily slip out of the cluster. It doesn't damage anything as long as the sleeve remains attached to the back of the cluster. If your cable is stuck in the speed sensor, you can simply drop your trans with the cable still stuck in it. Leave the sleeve attached to the chassis and the cable inside slips right out. No big deal. Once your done putting the trans back in, simply feed the exposed cable back into the sleeve and it will plug itself back into the cluster once you stab the sleeve back into the speed sensor. Now reinstall the cable clip and slip the rubber cover back down. Give the sleeve a tug to make sure it's been locked into place by the clip. Getting this clip back in while locking the sleeve in place is by far the toughest part of this job (at least from above).

BTW: I suggest you coat the cable in bearing grease before you feed it back into the sleeve. Once the cable dries out, it will rattle like crazy and you will think your speedometer gears are broken or something.

Here is a picture of the trans-end of the cable being pulled out of the sleeve. It slides right out no problem. Once it's out you will see the speedometer end is just machined into a square and doesn't actually "clip" into anything.



Here is a picture of the cluster end of the sleeve & cable. You can see the sleeve clips onto the back of the cluster. But the cable itself is just squared off and is only held in place by the transmissions's speed sensor.

 

94eg thanks for the photos that helps a lot unfortunately i can not re route the cable it was cut when the trans went back in. in the event I cant fix the holes of the trans will a trans from a 91 crx si work for my 1990 civic si ?

 

Yes as well as any cable from a auto or manual car will work let it be ef/crx/or even da integra