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Couldn't you damage the flywheel like that? Or would the trany be the only thing that's hurt?

The flywheel is part of the engine from what I recall, and not the trany. Could be wrong.

 
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Another small update, I got a chilton manual for the civic, and it doesn't say anything about opening up the transmission, actually I take that back, it has a paragraph that explains that you shouldn't do it on your own, and it takes lots of tools to do it! I found it funny, thinking that a manual like this has everything else, even working on engine internals but nothing about transmission internals. I think it's funny.

I'm going to get under the car today and see what's going on, if everything looks normal, I'm going to start taking it apart.

now I know where everything is, so I'm hoping it'll be faster this time around.

 
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get an actual honda manual, it does take special specs and tools to get the tolerances and gaps right, its why i havent broken down my spare trans yet....

 
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^cool, I think I'll get that for sure.

Another update. I spent four hours pulling the transmission out. I got it out, opened up the case, pulled everything out, and um, yeah I can't find a single thing wrong with anything!

With help from bomberman19, I finally realized that I didn't put the axels all the way back in when I did it the first time, so when I went around that corner, both of them popped out, and the passenger side axel, the teeth got sheared off, just the smaller ones at the top. So yeah!...... I pulled out the whole trans again for nothing.

Oh well. At least it's not a big deal....also, I'll be able to pull out the differential and make sure there's no little metal parts sitting in there. So it's good that I pulled it out anyways.

It goes back in tomorrow. Can't wait. This will be the first time I can drive regularly with my clutch and flywheel.

 
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good stuff..... same thing happened to me... i thought my tranny was fuxed but i guess if one axle pops out the whole car wont move. sorry i couldnt help you with that sooner >_<

 
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Woot! Hooray for avoiding epic tranny failure!

 
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thats almost as bad as forgetting to put spark plugs back in the head when doing a headswap.....

 
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Hooray for sure on that one!

Greeen01, why have you done that? Or know someone that did? That's funny.

 
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yea, i did it.... alpha5's wife called me on it, even if she was joking

 
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Ha ha, that's crazy

 
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YAY! I'm done with it!

I put it all back in together, and filled it up with fluid bled the clutch, did all of everything, drove it down the street a couple of miles and back everything works great! I'm going really easy on it right now, just for the hell of it. Oh and yes I do have reverse! ha ha

Special thanks to everyone that helped! Bomer, Foos, Greeen01, civicsrcool.

Edit: I did the math, I spent 179 bucks on some tools, oil, brake fluid, jacks, jack stands random stuff. I'm glad though. I opened it up twice. Technically all of the labor to do that twice would cost something like 1800 bucks. So I donno, Im glad.

 
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Good to go man! I wouldn't boost your Civic with those axles now, but she should be fine to putter around with the stock motor!

 
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Yeah i was thinking that I would get new axes when I boost, but that's still pretty far off considering that I still have all the body work/paint!

 
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Hooray!

 
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thanks for the thanks man, glad to hear its back up and running