This is a follow up
Just wanted to correct a couple of things I had wrong in my last posts. I had stated that the 1st and 2nd gears were on the Mainshaft, this was wrong. They are actually on the countershaft. You will find the 3rd 4th and 5th synchros and gears on the Mainshaft. However, all the power comes from the mainshaft, through the ISB into the transmission. I actually had a shop pull the transmission and I did the teardown and repair myself. The ISB was toast and had actually seized a couple of times, but the force of the mainshaft kept it going. My Mainshaft bearing on the other side was also shot, making that horrible noise I described earlier, and just for fun I replaced the countershaft bearing, plus all the oil seals in the gearbox. Put the thing back together and it works well, although I am going to be switching to a full synthetic fluid such as Royal Purple Synchro because I am not happy with the Honda fluids shifting quality. Again this is from a Civic, not the Insight, but the job is not terribly hard.
|
