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Old 07-31-2013, 10:13 AM   #22 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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90 day: 66.42 mpg (US)

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Originally Posted by hawk2100n View Post
If I knew what I knew now I'd be on the lookout for a good used transmission and swap it when the time was right. My transmission has always been loud, it just got a LOT louder in the last week and made be start worrying about it. Now its at the point where I dont want to drive it and risk massive failure. I have seen a lot of suggestions for swapping the input bearing but it looks like its more complicated than people say and there is no guarantee that I won't have a bad shaft or something else and I will still have to get a new trans. My car just hit 192,000 and I've had it since 149k. Hope yours hangs in there but at least you know that you could do what I did if you find yourself in a pinch.
My solution to this was to get a good replacement transfer before the failure and set aside the old one for rebuilding. Big job, but no unacceptable break in my access to my DD.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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