Anyone who has changed 5-speed gear oil.
03-05-2001, 08:21 AM
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Question, is there a spring that comes out of the drain plug hole when you drain the gear oil, is it for the plug or something? Cause mine did and I had never heard of this before. I don't hear any painful noises in the gear box and the thing runs fine. Don't want to seem uninformed, but it's proly too late for that. Oh yeah, I've read that the tranny also takes about 4.5 qts of oil, mine only took about 3.5. Let me know who else has dealt with this sort of thing. Gracias.
03-05-2001, 09:09 AM
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Originally posted by Maxfreak
Question, is there a spring that comes out of the drain plug hole when you drain the gear oil, is it for the plug or something? Cause mine did and I had never heard of this before. I don't hear any painful noises in the gear box and the thing runs fine. Don't want to seem uninformed, but it's proly too late for that. Oh yeah, I've read that the tranny also takes about 4.5 qts of oil, mine only took about 3.5. Let me know who else has dealt with this sort of thing. Gracias.
Question, is there a spring that comes out of the drain plug hole when you drain the gear oil, is it for the plug or something? Cause mine did and I had never heard of this before. I don't hear any painful noises in the gear box and the thing runs fine. Don't want to seem uninformed, but it's proly too late for that. Oh yeah, I've read that the tranny also takes about 4.5 qts of oil, mine only took about 3.5. Let me know who else has dealt with this sort of thing. Gracias.
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03-05-2001, 09:14 AM
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Uh-oh
Originally posted by Maxfreak
Question, is there a spring that comes out of the drain plug hole when you drain the gear oil, is it for the plug or something? Cause mine did and I had never heard of this before. I don't hear any painful noises in the gear box and the thing runs fine. Don't want to seem uninformed, but it's proly too late for that. Oh yeah, I've read that the tranny also takes about 4.5 qts of oil, mine only took about 3.5. Let me know who else has dealt with this sort of thing. Gracias.
Question, is there a spring that comes out of the drain plug hole when you drain the gear oil, is it for the plug or something? Cause mine did and I had never heard of this before. I don't hear any painful noises in the gear box and the thing runs fine. Don't want to seem uninformed, but it's proly too late for that. Oh yeah, I've read that the tranny also takes about 4.5 qts of oil, mine only took about 3.5. Let me know who else has dealt with this sort of thing. Gracias.
The location of the 5-speed drain and fill plugs may be seen at:
http://integra.vtec.net/geeser/megam...fluid_page.gif
The drain plug is horizontal, low on the transaxle case near the engine, and near the shifter boot. It is fairly small and looks like an ordinary bolt.
The capacity of the 5-speed transaxle is a bit less than 5 US quarts. Since you drained only 3.5 quarts, it could be
- your transaxle was not full
- you didn't remove the correct drain plug
03-05-2001, 09:19 AM
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Crap, I didn't see the ball, guess I better check the drain pan for that, it might come in handy. Would this explain the ease of disengaging the gears? Thanks man.
Originally posted by MacGyver
ha...i did that same thing...i hope you put the screw and the ball back in...check this out:
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Originally posted by Maxfreak
Question, is there a spring that comes out of the drain plug hole when you drain the gear oil, is it for the plug or something? Cause mine did and I had never heard of this before. I don't hear any painful noises in the gear box and the thing runs fine. Don't want to seem uninformed, but it's proly too late for that. Oh yeah, I've read that the tranny also takes about 4.5 qts of oil, mine only took about 3.5. Let me know who else has dealt with this sort of thing. Gracias.
Question, is there a spring that comes out of the drain plug hole when you drain the gear oil, is it for the plug or something? Cause mine did and I had never heard of this before. I don't hear any painful noises in the gear box and the thing runs fine. Don't want to seem uninformed, but it's proly too late for that. Oh yeah, I've read that the tranny also takes about 4.5 qts of oil, mine only took about 3.5. Let me know who else has dealt with this sort of thing. Gracias.
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03-05-2001, 10:49 AM
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Fix this immediately
Originally posted by Maxfreak
Crap, I didn't see the ball, guess I better check the drain pan for that, it might come in handy. Would this explain the ease of disengaging the gears? Thanks man.
Crap, I didn't see the ball, guess I better check the drain pan for that, it might come in handy. Would this explain the ease of disengaging the gears? Thanks man.
- 1st, neutral, 2nd
- 3rd, neutral, 4th
- 5th, neutral, reverse
If you lost the ball from one of them, the gears in that plane would not have the normal "click in" feel. If this is the case you must fix this immediately. The detent mechanisms serve several purposes. One is to act as an interlock, preventing two gears from being engaged at the same time. Suppose, somehow, your transaxle had 2nd and 4th gears engaged at the same time. Know what happens? Boom!
03-05-2001, 10:51 AM
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Re: Uh-oh
Dan, this brings up an interesting thing...I've noticed that my new (used) transmission tends to be difficult sometimes to shift into 1st and 2nd, and sometimes it will actually pop out of 2nd right after I shift. Is it possible that my 1/2 gear detent plug/ball/spring needs to be replaced or cleaned?
03-05-2001, 12:27 PM
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Internal defect
Originally posted by Keven97SE
Dan, this brings up an interesting thing...I've noticed that my new (used) transmission tends to be difficult sometimes to shift into 1st and 2nd, and sometimes it will actually pop out of 2nd right after I shift. Is it possible that my 1/2 gear detent plug/ball/spring needs to be replaced or cleaned?
Dan, this brings up an interesting thing...I've noticed that my new (used) transmission tends to be difficult sometimes to shift into 1st and 2nd, and sometimes it will actually pop out of 2nd right after I shift. Is it possible that my 1/2 gear detent plug/ball/spring needs to be replaced or cleaned?
Even though the detent is blameless, you could experiment with a stronger spring as a substitute for the original. Understand, this is a measure to compensate for (but not fix) an internal defect.
There is another possibility worth considering. If your engine mounts are damaged, that would allow your engine and tranny to move around more than the designers intended. One consequence is an unintended gear change.
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