Actually I lied, Ive been inside a D series Transmission for my del Sol before so I knew what I should expect if everything is working correctly...

In this case everything was NOT working correctly as within the past two days the trans went from being a little noisey under deceleration in gear ( throttle on was fine nothing to be suspitice of) to a clattery jumble of metal. I limped it around to get me to work and back got to my parents house where it finally decided to die. was in reverse with the clutch in when the wheels just locked up. Put it back in 1st and parked it until today. Pulled it into the garage with some slight difficulty and started work.

I dropped the old trans from the car and cracked it open... was gonna remove the snap ring that held the case on the clutch housing. This is what I found...


So upon seeing this I figured that the internals were probably fucked enough to pull the case off with out doing anything for the snap ring.

Yep, pulled the case right off.


Lets see what we have here...

Yep that used to be two bearings on the counter shaft. all thats left now is just the inner races for them. :crook: Thinking some sort of lubrication problem caused this. I only used Honda MT Fluid in it so either the bearings wore over time or it just didnt get enough oil to it and caused it to overheat and grenade. No wonder it wouldnt stay in second gear for the past week. :|


HEY!!! thats not supposed to be there. :P torn up ball bearing that landed on reverse.

Under all this crap is the magnet that should only catch the finer particles as gears wear...



An so that completes our journy inside my second transmission that I killed.

Needless to say Im replacing quite a few bearings in the one thats going back in. some feel and look alright but the ones that done are gone. New bearings will be here tuesday and hopefully will have it back together in about a week after I look through the tranny to make sure I wont have this problem again until I dump the D and get a B. :thumbup:

I'll update this as I repair the spare gearbox I had laying around the garage.