Hi,
I've got a above car (95 M plate) with an annoying sound coming from the gear box. In gear, the box sounds normal, it's when you move the stick with any sidewards movement so that it presses against the gate. This can be whilst it's in gear if you rest your hand on the stick or whilst your changing gear if you don't manage anything other than a perfect verticle movment on the gear shift. The noise is kinda a dull whirring noise, sounds like metal on metal, although it's farily quiet. It maybe completly unreleated, but there is a distinct change in noise when I am idling and press the clutch : up and there is a lot more rattles, down and the rattles stop. My Accord (same car) used to do this too though, and the noise is different from the one I described with the box.
The various explanations I've had have from different garages ranged from "it's the linkage" to the clutch release bearing to can't find anything wrong with it. I've been under myself and couldn't see anything unusual with the linkage, although it is pretty hard hard to see, at least to me. It's done at least 18,000 miles like this and the cars value is so little it wouldn't be worth fixing unless it was the simple of things, but I'd like to know just outta curiosity and it'ed make it easier to sell I want to.
Thanks for any help