i just recently bought a a1 tranny for my ls and put it in. The problem is that i seem to only have 1,2,5 gears. it feels like its going into 3rd and 4th but it is acting like it is just in neutral. any ideas or is it a shot trans

 

Without tearing it apart, I would assume that it is a broken shift collar or stripped out dog teeth or maybe even a broken shift fork. You could even be having a problem with the selector mechanism that activates the shift fork, but I doubt the mechanism is the culprit doe to the fact that all of the other gears work.

Honda uses a conventional shift companion setup.

1-2 use the same shift collar and shift fork and are on the input shaft

3-4 use the same shift collar and shift fork and are on the countershaft

5-R use the same shift collar but the reverse gear is operated by a linkage mechanism activated by a second appendage off of the 5-R shift fork shaft. The reverse gear does in fact have a synchronizer located at the very outside of the the countershaft.

 

so no matter what it is it needs to come off the car?

 

I would most definately say so. I can fix it for you but you would have to pay for shipping/transit and parts, I would be EXTREMELY reasonable with the labor.

 

Something like that would be fairly simple for me. I would not have to do any shimming or resetting of any tolerances. Pretty much pull it apart, assess the damage, order parts and reassemble. I would not cahrge any more than 100 bux as long as you pay for all of the parts and shipping.

 

are any of those parts able to break from installation or would it be from who i bought it from

 

it is just a simple part failure issue. I would think that it would be from some sort of abuse if the shift collar is the actual culprit. If the Shift fork is broken, then I would just blame it on part failure.