Just wouldnt go in...
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Just wouldnt go in...
I'll tell you about something that has happened to me 3 times now since I've had my TSX (about 8 months). Sitting at a dead stop, I cant put the shifter into 1st gear. Cluth is all the way down, the thing will just not go in. Tried multiple times.
I end up having to start in second, or go into neutral ... let off the clutch...push in the clutch and try again (then it usually goes in).
So like i said, its only been 3 times out of I dont know how many hundred that have been ok. Should I have this checked out? Any ideas why this would happen?
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If you have the clutch all the way in, the transmission is not spinning. Then you may be trying to but teeth on teeth and the gear shift won't change. Just be in neutral, let off the clutch (get the tranny spinning again) get back on the clutch and then shift.
It happens.
It happens.
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I have a habit of always pressing in on the clutch and going from 2nd to 1st before I drive off. (just a quick shift without movement) I never have problems getting into first doing that!
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Do you guys ever have trouble shifting all the way into reverse? It would go have way in, but not all the way. I would have to try multiple times, then it would finally go in. Is this the same case as not being able to go into first at a dead stop?..."teeth on teeth"?
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Originally posted by TSX 3Pedal
Do you guys ever have trouble shifting all the way into reverse? It would go have way in, but not all the way. I would have to try multiple times, then it would finally go in. Is this the same case as not being able to go into first at a dead stop?..."teeth on teeth"?
Do you guys ever have trouble shifting all the way into reverse? It would go have way in, but not all the way. I would have to try multiple times, then it would finally go in. Is this the same case as not being able to go into first at a dead stop?..."teeth on teeth"?
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usually a bump to 2nd and back to first will fix it. but i always shift to 1st as im stopping just before i come to a complete stop. i have been doing this as habit since i learned to drive. for 2 reasons. you may not know when the light is going to turn green and you may need to be in 1st gear before you take off. and 2 it makes shifting easier.
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Originally posted by Lung Fu Mo Shi
If you have the clutch all the way in, the transmission is not spinning....
If you have the clutch all the way in, the transmission is not spinning....
I think it's just something weird about how Honda (or whoever their tranny supplier is) designs their synchros. I have the same problem most times and got flamed for mentioning it before....
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I have a '97 Civic and have never heard of this... but i go back down the gears as i went up - again, not sure why, just the way i was taught?!?
explain how: as i come to a stop, if i'm in 4th, i'll go back down to 3rd, then 2nd, then once i'm stopped. back into 1st.
not sure why i do... can't imagine doing it any other way
and yes, i thought this thread was about something else too...
explain how: as i come to a stop, if i'm in 4th, i'll go back down to 3rd, then 2nd, then once i'm stopped. back into 1st.
not sure why i do... can't imagine doing it any other way
and yes, i thought this thread was about something else too...
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Originally posted by ClutchPerformer
...but if he's at an almost dead stop, then the other half of the transmission (the driveshaft) isn't spinning either. So it should be fine.....right? :sqnteek:
I think it's just something weird about how Honda (or whoever their tranny supplier is) designs their synchros. I have the same problem most times and got flamed for mentioning it before....
...but if he's at an almost dead stop, then the other half of the transmission (the driveshaft) isn't spinning either. So it should be fine.....right? :sqnteek:
I think it's just something weird about how Honda (or whoever their tranny supplier is) designs their synchros. I have the same problem most times and got flamed for mentioning it before....
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Originally posted by freudy
I have a '97 Civic and have never heard of this... but i go back down the gears as i went up - again, not sure why, just the way i was taught?!?
explain how: as i come to a stop, if i'm in 4th, i'll go back down to 3rd, then 2nd, then once i'm stopped. back into 1st.
not sure why i do... can't imagine doing it any other way
and yes, i thought this thread was about something else too...
I have a '97 Civic and have never heard of this... but i go back down the gears as i went up - again, not sure why, just the way i was taught?!?
explain how: as i come to a stop, if i'm in 4th, i'll go back down to 3rd, then 2nd, then once i'm stopped. back into 1st.
not sure why i do... can't imagine doing it any other way
and yes, i thought this thread was about something else too...
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Originally posted by TSX 3Pedal
Do you guys ever have trouble shifting all the way into reverse? It would go have way in, but not all the way. I would have to try multiple times, then it would finally go in. Is this the same case as not being able to go into first at a dead stop?..."teeth on teeth"?
Do you guys ever have trouble shifting all the way into reverse? It would go have way in, but not all the way. I would have to try multiple times, then it would finally go in. Is this the same case as not being able to go into first at a dead stop?..."teeth on teeth"?
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I had a problem this morning where i tried putting it into reverse with the clutch down and it kept making nasty unhappy sounds like the clutch wasnt in... I was just rolling out of my driveway backwards so i just rolled instead .. hasnt happened since
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Originally posted by gfxdave99
I had a problem this morning where i tried putting it into reverse with the clutch down and it kept making nasty unhappy sounds like the clutch wasnt in... I was just rolling out of my driveway backwards so i just rolled instead .. hasnt happened since
I had a problem this morning where i tried putting it into reverse with the clutch down and it kept making nasty unhappy sounds like the clutch wasnt in... I was just rolling out of my driveway backwards so i just rolled instead .. hasnt happened since
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Yea...I've actually tried to put it in reverse while I was rolling back and it didn't sound nice...it was kind of a grinding noise so I havn't done it since.
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Originally posted by Lung Fu Mo Shi
Right...NOTHING is spinning and at a dead stop. Thus you're trying to put teeth on teeth in the gears. The trick is to get something spinning again so that the teeth are not aligned, then try it again.
Right...NOTHING is spinning and at a dead stop. Thus you're trying to put teeth on teeth in the gears. The trick is to get something spinning again so that the teeth are not aligned, then try it again.
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Originally posted by ClutchPerformer
Right. But isn't that what synchros are supposed to take care of?
Right. But isn't that what synchros are supposed to take care of?
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So the thing to do then is shift into reverse before i even let the car move... I never had that problem with any of my other cars though
So the thing to do then is shift into reverse before i even let the car move... I never had that problem with any of my other cars though
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Originally posted by fdl
So you leave your car in gear while you are stopped? I could never do this, and I dont think its good for the clutch pedal anyways.
So you leave your car in gear while you are stopped? I could never do this, and I dont think its good for the clutch pedal anyways.
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I don't really have the same problem shifting into first, but then I often shift from neutral to second then up to first when at a stoplight. Old habit I learned on my MG, not really necessary on the TSX. I normally have the trans in neutral when stopped. I've never ground the gears going into reverse, but twice I've missed R and hit sixth instead and stalled.
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