I know just about every question about YS1 gear ratios etc etc have been answered all over Hondatech and other various forums but i seem to have an odd problem. I bought a YS1 trans from a guy i know thinking it was a cable GSR trans. But when i opened the case to check the ratios, i found none of the ratios to match what GSR gear ratios are supposed to be. I counted the teeth and they were as follows.
The case is a cable case with YS1 sticker on it. It seems to me that it has 1st through 4th and the final drive from a hydro LS and fifth from a cable ls, but i’m not even sure if all those parts are compatible with each other. If anyone has any input please chime in, I know i got screwed but i want to know exactly what i have. Thanks in advance.
you kinda aren’t really asking a question. and if you are, you are also kinda answering your own question. without actually having the tranny in front of me and inspecting it, I can give little insight. what you say the gear ratios are and what they really are may be two different things. I’m not saying you don’t know what you’re talking about, but I don’t know how good you are with this stuff and unfortunately from what I’ve seen from people in the honda world there’s a great chance you don’t exactly know what you’re doing.
Well i have a 2 year auto tech degree and I am a technician at a Chevy dealership, so i find myself to be fairly good with cars and stuff like this lol. So unless I’ve made a stupid mistake in figuring out the gear ratios then i am confident those are correct. That being said I’m not necessarily knowledgeable on the makeup of a Honda transmission, and the conclusion i had come to was from charts of gear ratios i found online. So i guess my question was if my theory was correct, and if it was even possible to mix hydro gears with cable gears, because i didn’t find anything online showing a trans with the same ratios as this one.
In that case, I believe it is possible to mix the hydro and cable gears between certain b-series transmissions. They did make two different diameter countershafts I believe, but obviously if that were the case you would have already twisted up gears on the splines of the shaft. So with that being said, it probably is mixed and matched from different trannys and you really did your homework and answered your own quesiton pretty much. There is nothing wrong with that providing the matching gear is used on the opposite shaft. So in the end you have a mutant tranny with weird ratios and if it’s assembled properly, you should have no issues with it’s longevity.