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Have I done damage to my tranny??

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Fountain Hills, AZ
Yes, I know the NSXis not a drag car....

I have a '94 Comptech SC'd, The other day when showing off next to a Viper, I accelerated in 1st gear to 7500RPM, and the acceleration caused my arm/hand to accidently pull the stick out of 1st under FULL acceleration with no clutch action.(OUCH) This was followed by a thump in the tranny as it came out of gear. I checked the operation of the tranny about 40 times. Everything seemed ok. I just hope I didn't damage a tooth somewhere....that's a lot of torque on a couple teeth....

Someone sell me a six 6peed tranny !

Regards,

Justin in AZ
 
The teeth you are feeling in the stick, are not 'the' teeth of the gears.
The teeth youre feeling are made just to connect the shafts to the gears, so they just make a connection.
These teeth have pointed ends, so if you don't have the gear all in place, it will be pushed out of gear by design.
(sorry for bad explaination, i had to see them in person before i understood).
If youre gearbox sounds, and behaves ok, i personally think it will be ok, though i would recommend not doing this again.

Please also note not to have youre hand on the stick when not shifting. Just a bad habbit which will do damage to youre gearbox, just like having youre foot on the clutch when not using it.

Dutchy
 
Originally posted by snyper2727:
Yes, I know the NSXis not a drag car....

I have a '94 Comptech SC'd, The other day when showing off next to a Viper, I accelerated in 1st gear to 7500RPM, and the acceleration caused my arm/hand to accidently pull the stick out of 1st under FULL acceleration with no clutch action.(OUCH) This was followed by a thump in the tranny as it came out of gear. I checked the operation of the tranny about 40 times. Everything seemed ok. I just hope I didn't damage a tooth somewhere....that's a lot of torque on a couple teeth....

Someone sell me a six 6peed tranny !

Regards,

Justin in AZ

You're fine. Now if you were upshifting with no clutch at 7500 RPM you might have chipped a synchro (the part MvM is trying to remember) but simply pulling it out of gear to neuteral wouldn't cause any damage.

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