While warming up the Insight this past weekend to get the stubborn spark plug out, I also noticed a bit of input shaft bearing noise from the transmission. The
04 Civic I have had a similar noise, but MUCH louder. The Insight's noise was not very noticeable and I didn't notice until I was just sitting there with the hood open playing with things and waiting for the car to warm up. Clutch in gives no noise, clutch out gives a slight noise. So, this gives me one more reason to pull the trans out and do the synchro fix and the bearing replacement. Once I put the Insight on the road, I don't really want to be messing around with fixing it. Its old enough and I'm sure enough other issues will creep up that I don't need one more thing on the to do list.
Is there a redesigned bearing to go back into the transmission so this doesn't ever happen again?
Whats the consensus on transmission fluid to put back in the trans?
I don't plan on getting to this super fast as the Civic is still in the garage and being worked on. I'm not going to pull the trans out in my gravel driveway.