Re: 5-speed transmission oil

#21

The brass synchros need to grip the gear face in order to match the gear
speeds.

If not you end up forcing the shift, and end up with crunching synchros.

--
Charles Tague
93 Honda Civic DX HB
1.6L SOHC VTEC 14.85 @ 89 mph,1.98 60 ft.
With ZEX 85 hp ZEX 13.09 @ 103 mph, 1.81 60ft.
86 Pontiac Trans Am
225/50/15 GForce Drag Radials
305 peanut cammed 15.29 @ 88 mph
http://home.cinci.rr.com/mistab0ne/
"Ken White" <ke875s (AT) att (DOT) net> wrote

Quote:

How is being "too slick" detremental to the transmission?

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:38:32 GMT, "Mista Bone"
MistaB0ne (AT) cinci (DOT) rr.com> wrote:

The 1988-2000 Civic SOHC tranny all use the same input shaft bearings. I
myself have never had a "ISB" bearing failure, but I usually have the
tranny
out every 15k-20K miles for replacing 1-2 shifter fork, yes I drive
ABUSIVE!!!!!

The 1996-2000 trannys use a different (steel) shifter fork design that
doesn't break like the 1988-1995 shifter forks.

They ARE NOT interchangeable.

Redline MTL leaves behind red GLOBS unless flushed with dino oil. The
tranny
in the link was ran with dino oil for 3,000 miles just to see if the
problem
was from Redline MTL, but it was too late.

I've ran Redline MTL for 12k miles. The cold shifting IMPROVEMENT was
nice.

BTW NEVER EVER use synthetic motor oil in a Honda tranny, too slick.

Bror Jace, I'm seeing others that use the MT-90 doing ok, no problems.

#22

Sorry I cannot reply to the top message, so I will post here.

I had similar experience with my tranny. I thought the problem was the
oil untill I discovered following TSB for our Civic's
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/TSBScans/sb626650.pdf It turned out to be
shift lever assembly corrosion.

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