MtnMnky

Without opening up the transmission. How does one determine what the drive ratio is? And forgive me for not knowing. But what is LKQ?

Potentially on the hunt for a manual transmission near the Richmond, Virginia area. Currently believe the one I have is on it's way out. Both 1st and 2nd gear sounds like I threw a handful of rocks into a blender and turned it on high also highly difficult to shift into either gear either shifting up or down). 3rd gear still has a little of that noise and then 4th and 5th have none.If my thought process is headed in the wrong direction I'm very open to being pointed in the correct direction. Also there's a severe lack of power (almost 4,000 rpms just to go 11 mph in 1st gear) just in the overall picture as opposed to what there was before. Info about the car: Bought it at 183,444. At the time it was barely running. Limped it home. To find that the rear passenger brake caliper had seized itself to the brake pad and that was seized up to the rotor. As well as the clutch itself was slipping. Took a little while to do the work. But replaced both rear calipers, brake pads and rotors. Drivers side cv axle boot was torn on the inner part of the shaft (connecting to the transmission), flywheel, new clutch plate, throw out bearing, and bearing that is in the flywheel. Recently have replaced the passenger cv axle. And the driver side caliper and rotor. And current mileage is just under 193K. Also is there any difference between the 2.2L transmission and the 2.5L transmission in way of them being interchangeable? Thank you to all that help and give advice.