For a while now, when the car sits running in neutral, there has been a little bit of a whine. When I press the clutch in, the whine slows down then stops. Pretty common signs of a bad throw out bearing. Recently the car has been shifting a bit more notchy than normal and the gears grind just a little as they go in. So, I've been babying it and planning on getting a new clutch. Today was the first time in over 2 weeks that I v-tec'd the car, and when I pulled it from first, it wouldn't go into second, so I aimed for 3rd, it grinded a bit so I let off the pressure and waited for the rpms to drop and pushed again. It went in, but it was ROUGH and when I shifted to 4th, 5th, and 6th it was pretty rough. When I got on the off ramp I shifted into first and took off normal, but all the gears were still rough, just not as bad as when I shifted on the highway. Is this a bad clutch? How much to fix it you think? With a new throw-out bearing of course.

 

Just a thought. Check your clutch resevoir fluid. I had a similar problem in my daily driver Accord where the fluid was low, it made it a complete pain to drive and hard to put into gears.

 

My dad took the car for a spin last night and told me he didn't think it was the clutch. He thinks it's my transmission.

 

Hope you get it figured out.

How are the tires?

 

The tires are great! I drove the car, and didn't worry at all about having a blow out! Good feeling.

 

Anyone want to help me rebuild my tranny?

After read a lot of threads, I think my syncros are shot..... :/

 

Are you sure??????

 

I still haven't gotten this fixed.

The car isn't nearly as fun having to carefully shift at 4k rpm or less. I'm getting 27 mpg though.

Someone help me dignose this?

 

I am going to get murdered for saying this, but probably one of the best people to talk to would be Tim Herron. You could always just give him a call and see what he thinks and go from there.