Hey, I'm looking for some advice. I've got a MY00 s2k with 60,000 miles on it. I'm the 2nd owner, and have had it for about 12k miles. The car has been taken in for all the TSBs and had synchros/countershafts for 1st and 2nd gears changed out at 20k miles.

About 6k miles ago i was having some problems and took it in and they found a leak in the slave cylinder and replaced it, it was better for a while. Now I have a hard time selecting first or 2nd gear and have to let the clutch out and depress it again to get it in, and most all the gears shift pretty rough. I took it back in and they told me it's the syncros again, but that it probably wouldn't be a long term fix to change them out again they might last 30k or so miles. They also mentioned getting synchromesh but that it wouldn't totally resolve the problem

To be honest, I love driving the car, but I'm not really into fixing them. I don't have a driveway or anywhere to work on it either really, b/c i live in a townhome. (nor do i have the necessary tools).

They called for a quote for the price of a new transmission and said the part alone is 4700 $$

Anyway does what i've been told seem accurate? With only 60k miles on the car (i'm not very abusive, and the previous owner seemed to be pretty anal about the care of the car) do you think honda would do anything about it? Really I'm just looking for advice

heads up, it is out of warranty

thanks

 

It's an 8 year-old car.

 

Yeah, I was more asking if anyone has had success with changing synchros a 2nd time, or if they'd just replace the whole transmission

 

get a used one for $500 then swap it. and while that tranny is in change out the synchros on your current tranny, then you have a backup

 

Hmm...why are they expecting synchros to only last 30k?

 

There must be more to this.. How bad does it grind?

get a used Transmission for 1500.00

 

You can screw up a good synchro in WAY WAY less than 30K miles just by not timing your shift right.

Yank back on the shifter to 2nd gear at WOT as fast as possible is the #1 cause of trashing the sychro. If your hand and foot are not timed right you try and engage 2nd before the clutch is depressed, or you jamb it into 2nd so fast the synchro has no chance to match the speeds of the next gear.

 

Sounds more like a clutch fluid/pressure problem then a transmission problem. There is no excuse for that many problems on an unabused s2000. The year 2000 is not an 'old' car. Regardless, I'd get a used unit, preferably a newer unit with updated/reinforced parts. You shouldn't have any major issues with ANY manual honda transmission that hasn't ben abused until well over 100k miles. My 94 GSR is an old car, it's got 148k miles and has* been abused. It still shifts with no grinds and besides being a little touchy trying to get it in reverse, it has 0 issues. The s2000 is a more complex unit but it's also a more expensive one and still doesn't have some huge amount of torque going through it.

 

Any ideas where to find a used transmission? They also said that if i got a new ap1 tranny that it wouldn't have the same problems as the one origionally put in my car b/c it's been redesigned or something (i wonder if that's true?) or should I just go for an ap2, not sure where i could find a rebuild?

have any of yall used synchromesh?

 

why don't you try a clutch bleed.