valpo500
Member
Hi guys. I little long history but its making me nuts. I bought my car six months ago, had to put some money on it to bring it up again but its worth it. I've been a Honda enthusiast since 16, had a couple of B18 civics and know I'm a proud 6th gen owner.
The car is 1999 EX V6 coupe. Now the bad part. NEED HELP from you experts!!
Two big questions:
1.
I just discovered that the previous owner of my car intalled a 4cyl cluster that is giving me some tranny issues (mechanic's theory) so I most changed it before warranty ends.
Locally (I`m in central america) I found a V6 cluster from a 2000 4door sedan accord. Will this work in my 1999 coupe? I know it has 2 extra lights for rear door ajar, but the rest is the same???
2.
Tranny was rebuilt 2 months ago, now I'm having problemas again with a hard gear change (like a huge jump that sounds cracky) between 2nd, 3rd and 4th as the tranny is taking longer than usual to make the gear changes through all gears. If you take the car into second gear, with mid gas... the engine will stall the rpms for a few seconds and then gives a hard 3rd. This happens ones in a while, like 2 or 3 times in a 10 mile commute.
The 4cyl cluster is misreading the engine's rpm, because when the engine is at 650, it marks 1100rpm, when the engine hits vtec at 3.800rpm (checked with external rpm reader) the cluster reads almost 6.000... and keeps going up to around 10k rpm in the cluster... mechanic said this was the reason for the tranny failure due to tranny computer misreadings between rpm and speed. I don't share this theory, but I need to prove it. Anyone has an idea of whats wrong? I bought the main rebuilt kit for the tranny with hard parts all everything for the rebuild.
I'll sincerely apreciate any comment that could help me against the shop? I need my car running, I paid almost $1200 for the rebuild 2 months ago.
The car is 1999 EX V6 coupe. Now the bad part. NEED HELP from you experts!!
Two big questions:
1.
I just discovered that the previous owner of my car intalled a 4cyl cluster that is giving me some tranny issues (mechanic's theory) so I most changed it before warranty ends.
Locally (I`m in central america) I found a V6 cluster from a 2000 4door sedan accord. Will this work in my 1999 coupe? I know it has 2 extra lights for rear door ajar, but the rest is the same???
2.
Tranny was rebuilt 2 months ago, now I'm having problemas again with a hard gear change (like a huge jump that sounds cracky) between 2nd, 3rd and 4th as the tranny is taking longer than usual to make the gear changes through all gears. If you take the car into second gear, with mid gas... the engine will stall the rpms for a few seconds and then gives a hard 3rd. This happens ones in a while, like 2 or 3 times in a 10 mile commute.
The 4cyl cluster is misreading the engine's rpm, because when the engine is at 650, it marks 1100rpm, when the engine hits vtec at 3.800rpm (checked with external rpm reader) the cluster reads almost 6.000... and keeps going up to around 10k rpm in the cluster... mechanic said this was the reason for the tranny failure due to tranny computer misreadings between rpm and speed. I don't share this theory, but I need to prove it. Anyone has an idea of whats wrong? I bought the main rebuilt kit for the tranny with hard parts all everything for the rebuild.
I'll sincerely apreciate any comment that could help me against the shop? I need my car running, I paid almost $1200 for the rebuild 2 months ago.
