Some snap ring range transmissions do not suffer from the failure problem. Somebody who has done this may be able to advise whether simple case replacement is easy / straight forward or a high skills activity.Īs to waiting for failure or relying on the 'if it ever failed'. Is your local shop an Acura dealer or just a general automotive repair shop? If they are a generalist and don't even have a copy of the service manual you may not want to trust that they think they might have done this before. If you want to go in and freshen up some synchros while the cover is off, that changes things. A superficial review of the service manual suggests that you might be able to do a simple case replacement without actually messing with the main and countershaft which means you dodge all the messy measuring stuff. That said, the service manual does detail transmission case removal (so the hear-say about Acura techs not being qualified might just be repeated 'internet wisdom'). If that is true, you probably don't want somebody who can't remember whether they have done this trying it. You can take that for what it is worth because it is hear-say. The story goes that Acura's official position is that NSX transmission repairs are to be replacements because their opinion is that the repair is not within the skills of the typical master technician. I live in OKC and there aren’t many local options for NSX work. I guess the other option is to skip the repair and just hang onto the case so that I can have the transmission repaired if it ever failed. Also the shop send they would need to charge me for storage if the car is on the lift for a couple of weeks. Maybe thats not valid if it’s a simple job. If I didn’t send the whole trans off it will obviously save me time and money, but I like the idea of a shop doing it that is experienced. Does anyone know if that is possible? The shop quoted me 1,200 to pull and replace the transmission. The local shop I was planning to use thought they (my local shop) may be able to replace the case in the car, but the technician doesn’t remember because it’s been 10 or 15 years since he’s done it. I was going to send my transmission to SOS to do the case replacement/snap ring repair. The repair is just to have the potential for future failure taken care of. My car is a 1992 with ~31,000 miles that is in snap ring range. I have a few questions about snap ring repair.
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