Update Got the car back from the shop. They managed to get it out of reverse, but now it has no reverse (1-5 work fine). Thankfully they didn't charge me. There is a metallic tapping noise coming from the transmission case when the car is in neutral and idling. When I rev it up, the tapping noise in...

Yep, I had a helper run it through all the gears and the linkages on top of the transmission respond properly. We also took apart the dash and made sure the connections were good at the shifter. Trans shop owner did the same thing and concluded that something was broken inside the transmission but s...

The clutch was done by the used car dealer I bought it from a year ago and is relatively fresh. I have tried finding examples of this transmission failing in this manner and have come up empty. Regarding driving, I don't hotrod the car or anything...it's just a DD. I tend to try and maximize fuel ec...

I have a 2009 Vibe 1.8 FWD with the 5-speed manual. At 136k miles, the input shaft bearing in the transmission went (got real noisy). So, I had it rebuilt at a local shop. The owner said they replaced all the bearings plus a few synchros. It worked great for about 4k miles...shifting was awesome wit...

I'm looking at doing the same thing, have a 2009 1.8 liter 2ZR motor vibe with a dead five speed (input shaft bearing). There are tons of people swapping the 1st gen transmissions, but this is the first thread I've found on here about someone doing a 6-speed swap into a 5-speed 2nd gen vibe. In my c...