Gears wont engage now - Honda Prelude Forum

Fast&furiuslude · 10-05-2002, 10:49 AM

I ran out of fluid in my slave cylinder resovior which caused my clutch pedal not to work anymore, so i bled the system and refilled it and it worked fine for a couple days. Now it doesnt want to go into gear, i mean it goes forward but it wont engage into its slot. i know it can be the tranny b/c if it was it wouldnt go forward at all. I just want to make sure if its the actual slave cylinder or what to replace?

93si4ws · 10-05-2002, 01:05 PM

you saying you can drive but the stickshift itself won't go forward? elaborate more pls

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Fast&furiuslude · 10-05-2002, 03:21 PM

the stickshift itself goes forward, but its kinda like a rubber band effect sometimes. sometimes it will stay in and engage and sometimes it will just bounce back to neutral. 1st gear is the hardest to get to stay, its just that i hate having to be stuck at a light sitting there feeling dumb in this nice prelude and id have to start in 2nd which wears out my clutch.

4bidden · 10-05-2002, 05:22 PM

sounds like a possible problem with the linkage. check the line for cracks from the tranny to up under the car. under the car will be a little hard cause the line is under the heatshield and to check out that line you have to remove your first section of your exhaust, and take off the heatshield. but if it is cracked, its most likely right behind the back of the engine block where it turns and heads downwards. mine cracked right there and i had the "rubberband" feel for ALL of my upward gears. my reverse was also f'd up so i had to drive home with 2nd and 4th.....try that!!

Fast&furiuslude · 10-05-2002, 11:58 PM

wow all of my up gears are gone too including reverse. how did u fix it, did u buy new linkage?

4bidden · 10-06-2002, 04:33 AM

were you quoting me or saying thats how yours is? if yours is like that now, its the linkage most definately....at least for the "up" gears, dont know about reverse. one of your cables is cracked somewhere and is binding up there when you push the lever forward. you will need a new linkage, not necessarily the whole thing, just the piece that you cracked. you can separate the two cables, youll see how when you take it off.

Fast&furiuslude · 10-06-2002, 12:06 PM

thanks 4bidden im gonna go ahead and do that. So the slave cylinder has nothin to do with the gears right, just the linkage?

93si4ws · 10-06-2002, 12:13 PM

you didn't grind any gears bad did you? syncro lock rings help hold the transaxle in gear. if they are disturbed they might not operate properly.

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Fast&furiuslude · 10-06-2002, 12:30 PM

no it didnt grind bad at all, maybe a lil but not that much. i really got to play with it to get it to stay in 1st gear but i really only got 2nd and 4th.

93si4ws · 10-06-2002, 12:51 PM

i worked on a civic that had no reverse gear. it just wouldn't go in no matter what you did, it wouldn't grind, i just physically wouldn't go into reverse. he went out and bought the shift linkage (against my advise) and the problem was still there. he said he didn't grind the gears at all. but after some confession he said it grinded slightly on the 2/3 shift during a drag race. and immediately after it wouldn't go into reverse.

i pulled the tranny apart and the teeth on the 3/4 syncro were locked. in order to get into reverse they must slide and the teeth were so worn that they blocked movement. i switched the syncro with one from a spare transaxle and he was on his way.

this COULD be your problem. i, myself, dont see many shift linkages going bad unless someone that does a clutch job bends the linkages in a way that isn't nice nice.

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Fast&furiuslude · 10-06-2002, 01:51 PM

hmm well i did just do a swap and when i first drove it it was really hard to get into first gear, i had to like force it in with power, now its mushy. damn im confused now?

Im thinkin its one of my cables cracked b/c me and 4biddens problems sounds the same, i can still put it in reverse though and most of my upward gears wont go in unless i play with it.

4bidden · 10-06-2002, 04:45 PM

im positive its your linkage man. especially since you explained it with "rubberband" feel. same as mine did. had to drive all the way home with only 2nd and 4th...thank god for torque.

try putting it in 2nd, then heading up to 1st and see if it does it. also....in this image...make sure all four of the #22's are in place and secure.

that could also cause your problem. if those are all there though, its most likely your linkage

Fast&furiuslude · 10-06-2002, 05:14 PM

i appreciate man. Yea if you drove a civic ex and that happened to you you probably wouldnt have made it home

Im gonna go check those #22's now. And yes it did have the ruberband feel, as you try to put it into gear it would shoot back into neutral as if it was held together by a rubber band.

Fast&furiuslude · 10-06-2002, 05:52 PM

Now the only way i can get it into 1st is from starting in 2nd and pushing it up and down until it FINALLY ENGAGES. it just wont stay in. i couldnt find the 22's tonight, i need to get under the car to find it.

4bidden · 10-06-2002, 06:28 PM

no you dont...im me on aim, it'll be easier to explain over there

Fast&furiuslude · 10-06-2002, 08:25 PM

ok i found the problem thanks to 4bidden. It was the cracked linkage right behind the clips. Does anyone want to sell me there left over linkage