HOLY GOD, i'm lucky

[dumbkid]

i felt a god awful vibration and imeadiately took it to honda... get this crap, they found NOTHING WRONG!!. idiots.

so i jack my car up to further investigate the noise and vibration iheard and find that the hex bolts going into the tranny from the drive shaft are almost completely backed out, also there are three missing, and one bracket gone. this all after a specialty shop whom i've always trusted replaced my tranny and clutch. this has me worried about the tranny job. hopefully all is well. now i know, the rest of the work done on this thing will be by me, i should have never strayed from that in the first place.

lucky me that i found this in time. that shop is flipping the bill and hopefully giving me some of the labor charges back... hopefully.



if you want the name of the shop pm me. it's in the metro atlanta area.

[batguano]

That is scary:shocked:

[repiv]

If it were me, I'd now be worried about all the torque specs they used on the clutch PP and tranny bolts. All that vibration at the end of the tranny could cause some damage to the tranny output shaft bearing, which has been known to fail all on its own.

[dumbkid]

tranny out put shaft bearing, i'll have them take a look. it felt like a chair massager on extra high.

[gomarlins3]

WOW!! You were lucky.

[dumbkid]

i just got my car back yesterday and all seems well, they said everything felt and sounded fine... lucky for them. my tranny is a little louder than normal, but i've got a year on the warranty for it and the labor. i'm going to give it some time to make sure that i'm not just paranoid.

but i do have a question reguarding clutch buzz. as far as the sound it makes, is it like a true buzz, or just loud during acceleration? my tranny feels perfect, just noisy. i'm actually wondering if the vibration didn't knock off some sound deadening material. like i said, it's only louder, but feels and shifts perfect. i had my clutch replaced during the tranny swap (ap1 for ap1) so it should be the clutch prior to the tsb and recall pertaining to clutch buzz.

in defense of the shop that did the work, they were great and willing to fix anything that goes wrong in association with the drive shaft. (impellar shaft)

[repiv]

The clutch "buzz" generally happens on "DECELERATION" from about 4500 rpm down to about 1500 rpm. It rarely does it on ACceleration. The sound is that of the clutch disc springs vibrating at just the right frequency. Upon engine braking, the natural backlash in the transmission begins to cause a vibration that works its way forwards into the clutch assembly. This vibration is transferred into the clutch disc springs, which becomes an audible sound. The vibration that cause the clutch buzz is not of a nature that would adversely affect any other system on the car.
The sound can vary from car to car. On mine, it was a kind of high pitched ringing sound.

[dumbkid]

this sounds like my tranny has aftermarket exhaust, like the natural tranny noise i heard normally, but only louder.

[repiv]

this sounds like my tranny has aftermarket exhaust, like the natural tranny noise i heard normally, but only louder.

"Normally", the tranny makes no noise.