2nd gear issue

karlhawke321 · Sep 27, 2015

I recently bought a pre face-lift ep3 and it's been fine up until now.
When I'm driving the car it seems to get stuck in second and it takes a bit of a mission to get it out, it goes in to second lovely with no crunches or anything! It's literally just when you come to take it out.

Now it does come out a lot easier at the top end of vtec, but that's hard to achieve around town lol! Anyone have any ideas what this could be? Also when then engine is off it will go in and out of second with no problems :/

Thanks in advance guys

stu1873 · Sep 27, 2015

I would say clutch but could be a syncro issue.

karlhawke321 · Sep 27, 2015

stu1873 said:
I would say clutch but could be a syncro issue.

Clutches aren't too bad on these are they? Don't they only have a single mass flywheel? #newbie lol

stu1873 · Sep 27, 2015

Yep. Just a single flywheel on them.

stayfreejc · Sep 27, 2015

It does sound like a clutch or synchro. Either way it's around 500-800 quid to get sorted.

ctr- · Oct 5, 2015

I would say synchro. Had the same issue on mine, I replaced the entire gearbox along with a new clutch

karlhawke321 · Oct 7, 2015

It's weird..... found out that if I stamp on the clutch really hard it seems to come out really easily lol! Also some days it's easier to get out of 2nd than other days.... really don't get it :/

KTM98 · Oct 7, 2015

karlhawke321 said:
I recently bought a pre face-lift ep3 and it's been fine up until now.
When I'm driving the car it seems to get stuck in second and it takes a bit of a mission to get it out, it goes in to second lovely with no crunches or anything! It's literally just when you come to take it out.

Now it does come out a lot easier at the top end of vtec, but that's hard to achieve around town lol! Anyone have any ideas what this could be? Also when then engine is off it will go in and out of second with no problems :/

Thanks in advance guys

its defenetly the dog teeth on the second gear, as it wears its forms a slight lip , gearbox needs to be striped down and with a small grinder the lip needs to be ground away until smooth, do not cut into the dog teeth to much ,,, do the same with the synchro hub (not the synchro ring) then will be ok for years.. I have done a few so quite an easy fix that only cost time and no new parts needed..
hope this helps