HELP: Transmission Problem? Options

[kyleung0309]

Dear all,

I'm a newbie from the UK .... My knowledge on cars is limited too! And I have seem to have a niggly problem with my JDM 94 Celica GT Manual 3S-GE, 52000 miles on the clock, last service christmas.

For example, I wanna overtake a slow car in front. During hard acceleration (esp in higher gears) the transmission OCCASIONALLY seem to lose grip/slip and I lose power to accelerate!! My rev increases during initial acceleration (obviously!) then if i keep pushing it (cos i wanna go faster in the same gear) ... the pin on the rev-meter DROPS and u can hear a slight 'neutral-revving' sound....... <sorry my english is not great!>

Any ideas what it could be? I tried to get my frd to video it for me a few times but every time i tried it my car was fine!! ironic!!

Clutch seems fine, somebody did a quick check for me. He was doubting the spark plugs they put in, whether they used platinum ones during my service or not cos it was with the garage it bought it from and they did it for 99 pounds, but we didnt have time to take them out, I'm not good with cars but i guess i can try if anybody suspects them.

Thanks in advance!!

Kwan

[bindertch]

Well if when you step on the gas and it just revs up even though you have it in gear but your speed doesn't increase then it is your clutch. If you don't have any noises or grinding sounds coming from the transmission(gearbox) then I wouldn't suspect that. How well does it take off from a stop? If it is slow and it revs up real high then you need a new clutch.

[kyleung0309]

Well if when you step on the gas and it just revs up even though you have it in gear but your speed doesn't increase then it is your clutch. If you don't have any noises or grinding sounds coming from the transmission(gearbox) then I wouldn't suspect that. How well does it take off from a stop? If it is slow and it revs up real high then you need a new clutch.

Thanks for the reply, this is what happens:

I have it in gear already, car is in motion, i step on the gas.... it revs up and there is power/acceleration initially, then when it gets to roughly 4-5kRPM it revs DOWN a little about 200RPM?, i feel a slip in power (as if neutral)... that's the strange thing....

from start it seems fine.... definitely not high rev and i can pull off quickly, but seems not as quick as before but could be psychological.... clutch wear as opposed to total failure?

I will try to video this, it is quite unusual

Kwan