wish I could help more, but my expertise is in Civic/Integra trannys.

On those trannys, whenever you change any of the gears on the input
shaft/mainshaft, you must recheck the shim clearance.

Helms is the company that prints the FACTORY manuals.

"Swamps" <kcirwin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry about that left out the best part
>
> 1988 Honda Accord Exi 2dr coupe Efi 5spd manual
> one tranny had a stripped reverse gear (1 thourgh 5 gears were good)
> 2nd tranny had a stripped 5th gear, 4th gear and 2nd gear(but reverse
> gear was good)
>
> I took the reverse spline shaft out of the 2nd tranny and replaced it
> with the first one which had a bad one. Everything seemed very nice
> when putting the tranny back together and 3rd and 4th gear shifted
> fine right when I first started the car and then they jammed. It
> doesn't matter how much I force that stick shift she just won't go
> into 3rd or 4th gear i don't want to force it to much
>
> I'm not big on technical slang on parts and gears all I know is there
> is two splines with gears lapped on top of each other. I did not mix
> any of them up I kept the gears together when I took them off and made
> sure they went exactly back on the same way.
>
> "Did you reshim per Helms manual?" (I'm not sure what helms manual is
> but this car is just a work car for me to go from A to B. I have a
> 2nd little black exi honda accord 2dr 5spd that I plan on fixing up
> and looking somewhat nice I like these cars there so die hard so I
> went and purchased another one for safe keeping runs like a dream.
>
> thanks again for any help you can shed on this tranny issue.
>
>
>
> "Mista Bone" <mistab0ne@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> > What car is this for?
> > What parts did you exchange between the trannys?
> > Did you reshim per Helms manual?
> >
> >
> > "Swamps" <kcirwin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:ec031712.0312261000.3b6fae1b@posting.google.c om...
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I just took out my old tranny that was pretty much shot, I made out of
> > > two bad transmissions I made one good one. When I finished it up I
> > > noticed it went into all the gears fine. I then started it up and took
> > > it around the block and right away I noticed 1st, 2nd 5th and reverse
> > > work fine. 3rd and 4th seem to be jammed I just can't seem to get it
> > > into gear for those two gears. I was wondering if anyone had some
> > > insite on this maybe I missed something simple. I just thought maybe I
> > > could get some ideas before I go and take the tranny out again.
> > >
> > > thanks in advance
> > >
> > > KC