reverse shift engage noisy

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:25 pm

Hi All,

Nubira 1,6 DOHC manual transaxle 85000km.
When I shift in reverse I often get a criiiiiiik gear noise.
If I don't pull the shift lever full against the left wall (+/-1 mm play)before engaging than it's beter.
Is that something I can adjust without stripping my tranny in pieces?

Thks,
Daniel

AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:47 am

I think we all (guys with 5spds) have this problem. I don't know if anyone actually attemped to fix it... I'm used to it already... have to completely stop, and put it into reverse slowly, then it's fine.

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:18 am

same thing here... i even went to the dealership for that issue and the guy told me "throw in the revers gear slowly" and on a review on daewoos many years ago they said that the reverse is pretty tricky and you need to be at a complete hault to be able to successfuly engage the revers gear.

it is kinda inherent thing with the tranny rather than a problem.

MMamdouh

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:41 pm

Hey!
I've learned from a french forum the reasons of my noisy method. The pinion of reverse gear has right teeth without synchro and I have to wait about 4 seconds with the clutch pedal floored that all internal gears are no more spinning. Then I can engage the reverse without having sarcastic remarks from my neighborhood.

Daniel

AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 5:07 pm

Daniel wrote:Hey!
I've learned from a french forum the reasons of my noisy method. The pinion of reverse gear has right teeth without synchro and I have to wait about 4 seconds with the clutch pedal floored that all internal gears are no more spinning. Then I can engage the reverse without having sarcastic remarks from my neighborhood.

Daniel

Hm... I'll give it a try!!

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:26 pm

Daniel wrote:Hey!
I've learned from a french forum the reasons of my noisy method. The pinion of reverse gear has right teeth without synchro and I have to wait about 4 seconds with the clutch pedal floored that all internal gears are no more spinning. Then I can engage the reverse without having sarcastic remarks from my neighborhood.

Daniel

sounds about right... i only wait some 2 seconds till it engages though.

MMamdouh

tango · Post by **tango** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:46 am

I have the solution to ALL your problems....get AUTOMATICS!!

BosnianLanos · Post by **BosnianLanos** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:03 am

tango wrote:I have the solution to ALL your problems....get AUTOMATICS!!

LoL

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:39 am

tango wrote:I have the solution to ALL your problems....get AUTOMATICS!!

boo!

Post by **PrecisionBoost** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 5:40 am

I grind my gears all the time.... reverse and 1st gear.... I guess I'm too impatient sometimes

I don't think I could ever wait 4 seconds at a complete stop....I'm one of those guys that floors it in reverse and slams it into 1st as I'm spinning so that the tires are spinning in a forward direction by the time the car has stopped moving in a backwards direction.

Sure it's hard on the tranny..... but it's fun

I used to have a tranny with bad syncros and I didn't get them fixed so I used to double clutch or do clutchless shifting..... I probably ground the gears (sometimes forcing the shift) about 20 times a day.

Surprizingly enough the tranny took the punishment.... I couldn't kill that tranny..... so a little bit of grinding here and there shouldn't hurt it.

AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 5:40 am

Audacityracing wrote:
tango wrote:I have the solution to ALL your problems....get AUTOMATICS!!

boo!

AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 5:42 am

By the way, I tried that 4 second solution... and it does not work!!! Still grinds unless I completely stop

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:32 pm

AcingTeam wrote:By the way, I tried that 4 second solution... and it does not work!!! Still grinds unless I completely stop

you start counting 4 seconds AFTER you are at a complete halt, if the car is still moving you will gringd the gears no matter how long you wait... thats why it sucks.

MMamdouh

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:36 pm

tango wrote:I have the solution to ALL your problems....get AUTOMATICS!!

yeah right... solve the revers problem and on the other hand lose 5th gear, make your car slower in 0-60MPH, lose top speed and above all lose the fun of upshift, downshift (and sometime miss-shift)?? no thank you i prefer to grind revese gear all day long :twisted:

MMamdouh

Brian5475E · Post by **Brian5475E** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:21 pm

Yep the Aveo is the same. Looks like GM did not improve on this problem