>>28614303 (OP)
Guys I'm scared...
I recently 5 speed swapped my 7th gen Civic and it was driving and running ok-ish, although I did notice that there was some slugishness and the car would jitter at lower speeds...
Turns out, the auto parts store sold me an automatic driver side CV axle (NEVER TRUST A WOMAN) and my foolish ass thought that maybe it was normal for the cv axle to stop idk like 1/2 an inch outside of the differential
ffwd to a couple months later, and I keep getting this noise coming from whenever I let go of clutch or blip the gas pedal. Squealing and a clunking sound. I shrugged it off because I thought maybe a mount was worn but deep in the back of my shallow little mind I thought perhaps it could be the cv axle. Well, the noise started getting worse and worse, until it was painful to drive because whenever I was at full lock and taking off it would sound BAD
So I took off the axle and put it into the old 4 speed box; it goes in, but not all the way. Took off the circlip, it goes in ALL THE WAY
sure enough, running the numbers and looking at some photos, (based RockAuto had some dimensions) I determined that it was indeed an auto cv axle :(
Then I decided to look inside the tranny and I saw that the ends of the splines on the axle had cut into or marred the surface of the diff pinion shaft. I very much HOPE that all is going to be fixed and fine after I swap the axle, but still I'm so scared that my tranny is effed beyond saving...........