89 Civic LX Auto

I'm getting a big vibration from the transaxel when it shifts into 2nd. The car is an automatic, and I've kept the tranny fluid changed and everything. If I take my foot off the gas right before the tranny shifts, it shifts with no vibration or sound.

I have a link to the sound I recorded by taking my laptop in the car and taping a mic to the battery. If you listen you can hear the big low sound as the car shudders into 2nd. I am driving the car normally and it shifting at about 2500 or slightly over. I really don't have any other problems besides what you can basically hear in the file. I think I hear valves clattering in the file also.

http://waffleserv.servehttp.com/sound.mp3

Does anyone know why the tranny may be doing this?

 

wow...nice recording...i would say if the car is shuddering when it shifts... you got a clutch pack going out. a quick little tranny rebuild would take care of the problem for you

 

That's what I thought it was. It's been doing it for a long time and I can avoid it by letting off the gas, so if it doesn't get worse, I'll just let it stay. I plan to sell the car sometime anyways.

 

yeah you can do that too

i was gonna say next time i go home ill be in huntsville for like a day...id look at it for ya

 

woooo! YES! Someone who knows a good deal about Hondas that could come to huntsville!

I'm really looking for another car. Considering a Nissan Pickup, Prelude, 240SX, Integra, or something else that isn't too bad. My friend told me that I might be smoking, but I've never seen it, and I had people stand behind my car and tell me if it smoked. I really just want to get out of it. I must be the 4th driver of the car. The driver's seat is worn out from peoples' asses.

 

lol i would go teggy for sure...

dont get your hopes up...next time in in alabama, itll be in like ummm late sept early oct...after i get back from deployment