Hi all, had my EP3 for 6 months or so now, currently on 124k. Over the past few months I've started to have issues with the gearbox, main issue being that 3rd gear crunches going either up or down into it, but only at high revs - anything above 5/5.5k ish. Done a fair bit of searching on here and at first I did think it was a syncro issue but now I'm starting to lean towards clutch needing replaced. Any advice would be great.
Full symptoms are:
3rd gear crunch at high revs only, totally fine in normal day to day driving
If in 3rd and I then take it into VTEC and through the gears it takes a bit of force to get into 4th/5th/6th
Clutch pedal feels quite heavy, bite point is not ridiculously low however, it's higher than an FN2 clutch I'd say
There is a bit of rattly/bearing noise at idle which goes away with the clutch depressed
It also seems the crunching only appears once the car is properly up to temp (before anyone says it, I don't thrash the car cold, was trying to demonstrate to a passenger the issue before the car was fully warmed up and no crunching happened)
Thanks in advance if anyone can help
Full symptoms are:
3rd gear crunch at high revs only, totally fine in normal day to day driving
If in 3rd and I then take it into VTEC and through the gears it takes a bit of force to get into 4th/5th/6th
Clutch pedal feels quite heavy, bite point is not ridiculously low however, it's higher than an FN2 clutch I'd say
There is a bit of rattly/bearing noise at idle which goes away with the clutch depressed
It also seems the crunching only appears once the car is properly up to temp (before anyone says it, I don't thrash the car cold, was trying to demonstrate to a passenger the issue before the car was fully warmed up and no crunching happened)
Thanks in advance if anyone can help