my car starts up fine but when i put it into 1st gear, all it does it grind. the car moves but barely. it's not driveable. 2nd & 3rd is the same. can anyone tell me what the problem is? fucked up bearing/gears?

 

What tranny? D, B, H series?

 

it's a b-series JDM b16 tranny. LS motor. poison to the rescue again...

 

lol.

can you put it into gear with the car off?

 

yeah, i can put it in gear. it barely drives but it makes a LOUD grinding/scratching noise. seems like all the gears are fucked up.

 

Ok, how many miles, what kind of clutch do you have?

How's the pressure on your clutch pedal?

 

there's about 45K miles on the tranny. i got this clutch:
http://store.yahoo.com/twincam....html

pressure plate is fine.

 

the clutch made a weird "clunk" noise everytime i shifted into 1st gear before the whole tranny went out.

 

Sounds like it could be the TOB, clutch fork, slave cylinder or disk itself.

Try pulling the shield off to see if you see any debris in there..

 

what's the TOB? so, nothing is wrong with the tranny itself?

 

In my 92 Hatch Si D16 sohc vtech I have the same clutch as unjockable....The only difference is that it grinds when I go into reverse. I'm hoping it's not the tranny...Im right with you unjockable. Ha. Same question...Is it the tranny?

 

update: now, the car doesn't even go into gear. it just makes a loud grinding noise. had to tow it. what's wrong with it? is it the clutch or tranny?

 

Pull it off and find out.

More than likely, you ate a clutch disk. Sounds like it. If it won't go into gear, it's either the disk, the moveing parts that move the pressure plate, or your flywheel bolts backed out.

I saydisk. Only takes 35 minutes to take the tranny off. Pull it!

Stick

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Tim the Stick &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Pull it off and find out.

More than likely, you ate a clutch disk. Sounds like it. If it won't go into gear, it's either the disk, the moveing parts that move the pressure plate, or your flywheel bolts backed out.

I saydisk. Only takes 35 minutes to take the tranny off. Pull it!

Stick</TD></TR></TABLE>

should i just go buy a new clutch? do you think it fucked up my tranny? that's the thing i really want to know. rather buy a clutch then a tranny.

 

If it goes into gear when car is OFF, then most likely your tranny is fine.

 

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That is why I asked that above to see if the internals in the transmission are good.

When the car is on, the clutch, main shaft and counter shaft are spinning and the synchros are needed to match in order to put it into gear.

TOB = Throw Out Bearing. When you push on the clutch that is what pushes on the pressure plate to disengage the clutch plate.

I would pull open the tranny and such and inspect it. Sounds like the clutch or the throw out bearing is toast.