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Need help!! MTX won't go in gear! ATTN: ShoNut Performance
Hey everyone, I hope you all are doing MUCH better than me. Haha. I think I may have come across any long-term SHO owner's dreaded problem... bad transmission. I've only owned my SHO for almost 8 months now, and it now has 133k on the drivetrain. So here's what happened tonight along with past situations with the vehicle.
So me friends and I decided to make a 30-minute drive up into town where all the "cool" ricers hang out and show them what's up by giving them a run in a 4-door sedan. So I pull into the parking lot with all the other hooblums and rev my engine as I drive by. Now I know my car only runs 15.1's at the track, but I also know I can handle these lame-*****. So they yell for me to turn around and the big-shot of the crew (by bigshot, I mean the one with the fastest car there) asks me if I want to run him. He had one of those early/mid 90s Integras that had quite a bit of work done to it. He sounded very confident, so I was worried. Anyway, when go from a 10 mph roll and I have over a car-length on him until I miss 3rd gear (bad subframe bushings). He catches up beside me and I get into 3rd just as he slowly starts passing me. So I start pulling slightly on him again but he's already in front of me because I missed a shift. Would've had him otherwise.
So we run again from a 70 mph roll... I had him pretty well on that one. We both come to a red light a little further down the road and he pulls up beside me and asks if I want to run him again. Of course. We both revved to about 3k and both spun the sh*t out of firsth gear. Now I very well KNOW this is not good for a stock tranny, without a Quaife especially. But I didn't want to lose. So this time I roasted him up to 3rd gear again. Guess what... it wouldn't go into 3rd this time. I slowed down, slammed it back in 2nd gear and broke the plastic piece of the center console that is connected to the shifter boot. Tried up-shifting back into 3rd and after several attempts it finally grinded into 3rd. Now I slow down to make a U-turn with him and can't get it in 1st gear to merge back out into traffic. Had to really force it hard to get into gear and had problems getting into 2nd after that, followed by grinding back into 3rd.
We pull back into the parking lot and the guy I raced told me he saw sparks come out from underneath my car one of the times he was behind me while we were racing. That can't be good. So I was figuring maybe I needed to try adjusting my clutch since I rode the crap out of it trying not to spin too ******* that one run from the light. See.. I've never been too sure about that clutch adjustment. I've tried adjusting it several times and never heard a click come out of the clutch pedal on slowly pushing it down. So I started thinking maybe the clutch adjustment cable is bad and I just need to fix it and my problems would be solved. Well regardless I tried adjusting in the parking lot and it did nothing. Had a **** of a time getting it to go in 1st gear. So while driving back home I noticed it went into 4th and 5th gear pretty well, just not 1st, 2nd, nor 3rd. And it keeps grinding EVERY time I try shifting into 3rd. I also noticed that while at idle the car is vibrating a little bit. Like something is running rough. But not one time tonight did the CE light come on.. so I'm not so sure it's the engine. I got home and can't get into reverse either... just kept grinding when I tried. I had to shut the car off, put it in reverse, the start it up and back it up.
So a little history on the car: When I first got it the transmission fluid was leaking slightly, so I took it to Jiffy **** and had them pour in some Stop Leak tranny fluid I had. They told me afterwards that it WAS in need of fluid. A few days later the leak seemed to stop so I hadn't had the fluid level checked on it since around December.. which was nearly 12k miles ago. I'm not sure if it possibly just might need more fluid now... or if it had run low again since then and that may have caused the damage that was done tonight. I had also noticed that the car has always kinda "shuttered" when letting the clutch off to engage it into gear. Idle never dropped or anything, just wasn't smooth when engaging into gear when I almost completed disengaged the clutch. Basically, that only happened when the clutch pedal was about 80% or so released.
So what does this sound like to you guys?? I had my friend rev my engine up to 3k after we got it to my house and the motor didn't move out of place or anything... so it can't be a bad motor mount. Could it be a bad transmission mount??? I'm just hoping I did destroy the gears and/or tranny, nor blew the clutch. I defintely can't afford the cost of having the engine and tranny dropped to fix anything like that. The labor and parts would be well over $1k if it's just simply the clutch. Could it be that I need to simply fix my clutch adjustment simply and get it adjusted. The pedal feels WAY different now. And I DO have a rod shifter, by the way. Not a cable shifter. Anything else you guys think I could have done??? Man I just hate the fact that I'm so abusive to my cars. Every car I've had has been a fast car (much faster than the SHO) and I just can't help but mash that throttle and whoop on people. I REALLY need to get outta that habit! Thanks for any help you can give me guys!! Please tell me I don't need a new tranny (and actually mean it!)
Hey everyone, I hope you all are doing MUCH better than me. Haha. I think I may have come across any long-term SHO owner's dreaded problem... bad transmission. I've only owned my SHO for almost 8 months now, and it now has 133k on the drivetrain. So here's what happened tonight along with past situations with the vehicle.
So me friends and I decided to make a 30-minute drive up into town where all the "cool" ricers hang out and show them what's up by giving them a run in a 4-door sedan. So I pull into the parking lot with all the other hooblums and rev my engine as I drive by. Now I know my car only runs 15.1's at the track, but I also know I can handle these lame-*****. So they yell for me to turn around and the big-shot of the crew (by bigshot, I mean the one with the fastest car there) asks me if I want to run him. He had one of those early/mid 90s Integras that had quite a bit of work done to it. He sounded very confident, so I was worried. Anyway, when go from a 10 mph roll and I have over a car-length on him until I miss 3rd gear (bad subframe bushings). He catches up beside me and I get into 3rd just as he slowly starts passing me. So I start pulling slightly on him again but he's already in front of me because I missed a shift. Would've had him otherwise.
So we run again from a 70 mph roll... I had him pretty well on that one. We both come to a red light a little further down the road and he pulls up beside me and asks if I want to run him again. Of course. We both revved to about 3k and both spun the sh*t out of firsth gear. Now I very well KNOW this is not good for a stock tranny, without a Quaife especially. But I didn't want to lose. So this time I roasted him up to 3rd gear again. Guess what... it wouldn't go into 3rd this time. I slowed down, slammed it back in 2nd gear and broke the plastic piece of the center console that is connected to the shifter boot. Tried up-shifting back into 3rd and after several attempts it finally grinded into 3rd. Now I slow down to make a U-turn with him and can't get it in 1st gear to merge back out into traffic. Had to really force it hard to get into gear and had problems getting into 2nd after that, followed by grinding back into 3rd.
We pull back into the parking lot and the guy I raced told me he saw sparks come out from underneath my car one of the times he was behind me while we were racing. That can't be good. So I was figuring maybe I needed to try adjusting my clutch since I rode the crap out of it trying not to spin too ******* that one run from the light. See.. I've never been too sure about that clutch adjustment. I've tried adjusting it several times and never heard a click come out of the clutch pedal on slowly pushing it down. So I started thinking maybe the clutch adjustment cable is bad and I just need to fix it and my problems would be solved. Well regardless I tried adjusting in the parking lot and it did nothing. Had a **** of a time getting it to go in 1st gear. So while driving back home I noticed it went into 4th and 5th gear pretty well, just not 1st, 2nd, nor 3rd. And it keeps grinding EVERY time I try shifting into 3rd. I also noticed that while at idle the car is vibrating a little bit. Like something is running rough. But not one time tonight did the CE light come on.. so I'm not so sure it's the engine. I got home and can't get into reverse either... just kept grinding when I tried. I had to shut the car off, put it in reverse, the start it up and back it up.
So a little history on the car: When I first got it the transmission fluid was leaking slightly, so I took it to Jiffy **** and had them pour in some Stop Leak tranny fluid I had. They told me afterwards that it WAS in need of fluid. A few days later the leak seemed to stop so I hadn't had the fluid level checked on it since around December.. which was nearly 12k miles ago. I'm not sure if it possibly just might need more fluid now... or if it had run low again since then and that may have caused the damage that was done tonight. I had also noticed that the car has always kinda "shuttered" when letting the clutch off to engage it into gear. Idle never dropped or anything, just wasn't smooth when engaging into gear when I almost completed disengaged the clutch. Basically, that only happened when the clutch pedal was about 80% or so released.
So what does this sound like to you guys?? I had my friend rev my engine up to 3k after we got it to my house and the motor didn't move out of place or anything... so it can't be a bad motor mount. Could it be a bad transmission mount??? I'm just hoping I did destroy the gears and/or tranny, nor blew the clutch. I defintely can't afford the cost of having the engine and tranny dropped to fix anything like that. The labor and parts would be well over $1k if it's just simply the clutch. Could it be that I need to simply fix my clutch adjustment simply and get it adjusted. The pedal feels WAY different now. And I DO have a rod shifter, by the way. Not a cable shifter. Anything else you guys think I could have done??? Man I just hate the fact that I'm so abusive to my cars. Every car I've had has been a fast car (much faster than the SHO) and I just can't help but mash that throttle and whoop on people. I REALLY need to get outta that habit! Thanks for any help you can give me guys!! Please tell me I don't need a new tranny (and actually mean it!)
