MazdaMike

after a night out with the friends, we grabbed my car and were gonna head down to the local rice depot to cruise around so we went to get my car. a few days ago, 5th gear started gringing for me, immediatly i figured about the 5th gear syncro or servo whatever it was i went to a shop they said bring it in sometime next week they'll check it out. i stayed away from 5th gear but while waiting for a friend at a parking lot about a half mile from my house i noticed i grinded into 1st from stop and i hadn't even taken my foot off the clutch yet. i thought to myself oh $#it and sure enoughi tried shifting and everything went stiff. so i killed the engine and i could shift into gears again. so i tried starting it in first hoping to be able to get it home then have it towed to the shop after labor day but all it made was this strugguling lo rev noise like it was trying to turn over but couldnt. i shifted to neutral then she started up fine but i couldnt shift. im assuming its the syncos/servos whatever. either way my friends and i wound up pushing her back to my house, hehe here are the pics....

heh i bring my digital every where i go encase any of u were wondering. anyway please help me out with some advice/anwsers on what u think happened . if anyone has been in the same position i am in right now id also appreciate knowing about how much money im about to lose.

thanks for the help
-Mike

MazdaMike

oh yea, good thing the radio still worked, we were blasting greenday while pushing it through residential streets around 11:30 midnight ish heh waving at all the people staring and cars passing. oh thats me steering the car lol im such a cutie arent i
-mike

Nathan Kwok

Pineapple will rebuild the tranny with new synchros and bearings for $400, I'm probably going to send mine there (bearings starting to get noisy).

MazdaMike

whos pineapple, heh im not to good with disconnecting the tranny heh i would have no idea where to strt, im not ready for that kinda project

Nathan Kwok

Mike,
www.pineappleracing.com, they are in Oregon, you can just have a local shop drop the tranny and ship it out to them for a rebuild. Or call around locally and just have it done around here, but even after shipping Pineapple's price is hard to beat.

Snook

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greenday is the best ever and I love new york
I bet even though the transmission sucked it was still fun

I've heard about the crazy prices that pineapple has on motor rebuilds and transmission work. Why do they do their work so cheap? I am having the 5th gear problem very mildly and at that price I would think about shipping it out to them.

good luck with your car I hope you get it running again very soon

Snook

drewroman

those symptoms kind of sound like your clutch hydraulics have gone out, either the clutch master or slave cylider or maybe even the line between the two... or hell... maybe even both... if you have any kind of mechanical skill it's a pretty easy deal to change any of the pieces

your 5th gear syncro may be shot also, but I'm guessing that you need to look at the clutch hydraulics first...

whatever it is, I hope you find it quick and cheap

twstd rx

I'm with drewroman on this one, sort of. It could be the line or the slave or even the clutch fork.

I had this problem and it turned out to be a two fold problem. My clutch fork was broken at the pivot point AND the pulley on the front of the Eshaft had loosened letting the Eshaft "walk" backwards and rub against the fat part of the input shaft on the tranny!

I know some people will think this ludicrous but that's exactly what happened. The car has been at the shop for two weeks. The input shaft on the trans is ruined. They had to cut my input shaft off in order to get the clutch disc off (it was a month old and a spec 4 puck stage 3)

Good luck
Andrew

paw140

Like the last two guys said, it's not your synchros. Something is wrong with your clutch release stuff, either a bad master cylinder, slave cylinder, or a bent clutch release fork. You may have noticed that the clutch pedal felt a little different.