having my car repaired right the first time around is what I wanted and at the very least the first time I had trouble it would not have been

"This is normal", "This is within specifications", and "This can happen when you left off the throttle"

I had the guy who rebuilt my trans start up my old Honda Accord and let him put it into gear immediately. No jerks, no thuds and no gear slamming when changing gears

 

OK Here we go:

The good news: The transmission has been disassembled and the problem located....YAY... It was an internal failure that was caused by a binding valve(s) in the valve body.


The bad news: This in turn TOASTED EVERY SINGLE CLUTCH BACK and the steels. So we get yet another transmission rebuild.....

The results: I get my car tomorrow sometime around noon.

 

good news bad news day huh? at least they are fixing it.... sounds like it was a pain to get them to acknowledge the issue but you've gotta admit that at least they are going to fix it right.... I'm glad to hear for your sake that they are doing it right... let us know if everything feels good... did they give you a reason for the failure?

 

Sir Nasty,

The Tech indicated that there was a problem with the valve body where some valves were sticking when the unit heated up. This in turn was causing extremely harsh shift changes under certain conditions and just plain bad shifting under normal shifts. (see original thread). I hope when I get my car back tomorrow it is smooth as butter as it should have been if it was "within specifications" as they stated.

 

That's why I hate overhauling the damn things, going through the valve bodies is a time consuming, tedious procedure. But it has to be done. Cut corners and you get to go back in to try again, kinda like your guy just found out.

 

You would think that when you pay $3200 they would do it right the first time ?

 

You would think with all the time it takes to pull the trans out of the car, tear it down and go through it again, for no additional pay, you would do it right the first time.

 

OK they called and said car was ready. I go to pick it up and all appears well. Nice smooth reverse engagement smooth shifts between gears. Get less than 10 miles down the road and the 3-4 slam returns under light throttle............took the car right back

 

Man, that is just disappointing. I don't know why they just won't give you a new tranny for free.

 

I just called them and they stated that they are looking at it again.......they can reproduce the problem when they feather the gas.....