I was driving from my friends house up to my dads work to drop off his bomex back bumper *which was cracked in like 5 different places when we got the package after waiting a month* and was driving in fifth gear just fine, then i stopped, and when i accelerated up to 40mph, i shifted to fifth gear, and i heard a grinding noise when i tried to go, i tried it again, and it still grinded, all of a sudden i couldnt use my fifth gear when i just used it 10 seconds ago. Anyone know what could have caused this? Also, my transmission makes a whistling noise through all the gears, but starts out real soft in first, but then you can really hear it in fifth, i think that might have something to do w/ my 5th gear goin out, but i dont know what the whistling noise is, any help would be appreciated thanx.
also, we're lookin at buyin a new transmission, are the transmissions from the camry's the exact same as our celicas 5sfe transmissions? if so, would it be cheaper to get one off of a camry? how much do 5sfe tranys go for usually?

This post has been edited by FSX_Celica94GT: May 21, 2005 - 10:18 PM

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does the whistling start on a lower pitch speed up and move to a higher pitch as u push the stick harder right before it moves into gear? it does this goin into second in my car when im over 40mph if i use a little force and rest it against the second gear position right before it pushes over...not positive but i think its the syco...ur sycro on the 5th gear may have gone out so therefore the car couldnt shift it in without matching revs so this may have caused u to loose the 5th gears...

do you know if it would be cheaper to repair the tranny or just get a new one all together?

Depends a lot on who does the labor. If you pull the motor and such, or drop the tranny urself, it might be cheaper just to get a whole new tranny, unless you can rebuild the tranny yourself too. My guess would be cheaper to go w/ a rebuilt tranny if you did your own labor, but if someone else does the labor, you may as well find a new tranny. But i'm only guessing

guess i'll have to since ive never touched a tranny in my life lol. But its prolly the best to get a new low mileage one w/ my new low mileage engine. Lasted through 176k miles, the little trooper, especially going through 2 of my aunts kids and one of them doesnt give a s*** about anything, so im guessing hes part of this problem im having.

im having problems with my third get sometimes lol... its pretty imbarresing with my 3rd going out and it just grinds and i revv really loud cuz im not expecting it so it happens so fast that my foot is already back onto the accel. shoot i really need a new tranny. lol

Ok embaressing(SP?) story time:

So I made my own custom shoft shifter by cutting off the shifter. I put the shiftknob back on, but since I just cut the thread off of the stick, I had to sue the 3 screw design on the handle. I screwed in all three screws really really tight (bad move) and everything was ok...

I was driving down the road one day and my shift knob felt a little loose, I was just going to plan to tighten it up later at home. I took off at the green light in first, shift into second no problem. I go to shift into third and I can't. No grinding noises no nothing...I just can't shift into third. I thought some piece in the tranny had become bent or something, thus blocking my shifter form going into gear, so I was forced to shift into fourth like a moron.

I got home and tightened the screws (only 2 this time) and didn't think anything of the missing screw. This same thing happened to me for the next few days, sometimes it was second I couldn't shift into or third...but finally I got home and took off the shifter knob and the boot with the plastic piece. I see the missing screw is laying on top of the ball in the middle of the shifter...it would push against the side if I tried to shift...causing the problems I was having

>> sometimes I feel like such an idiot