Transmission Reverse problem

[schierholz]

Okay I am in no position to afford a new tranny at this time, but here is my problem.
When the car is cold and I shift into reverse it seems not to "sit" in gear and instead grinds into gear. When warmed up at operating temp it shifts fine into reverse. ( I actually last night when it went in fine backed up in a parking lot to listen for any problems and I heard nothing unusual
Forward gears work fine and on the dipstick there is no sign of shavings i'm only 3k into my tranny fluid change so I would say i'm far from another change. Now sunday 2 weeks ago it didn't go fully into first and gave me revs upward of 4k to move slowly, but after a restart it worked fine.

*Note*
No Sports blinking light (jumped or not)
91 Automatic Tranny

[Accord1320]

When you replaced the tranny fluid, did you use OEM Honda MTF?

[wildBill83]

Why would you put MTF in an AT car?

OP, how are you checking your fluid level? Sounds like a torque converter problem or one of the many internal clutches are failing.

[schierholz]

Yes I use all Honda fluids in my Cb. I changed it just recently check the level's every week as well. I have talked to alot of people and they all see the symptom when a car is hot and warmed up instead of cold. I guess it could be the internals that my best guess it's just annoying i'm ending up in neutral rolling my car back out of my parking spot so I can skip using the reverse gear when the car is warming up because that clunk sounds bad and it makes the car jump really bad. I am just trying to keep the tranny as long as possible i'm just trying to save my reverse gear from going out any time soon

[emosun]

maybe the solenoids do not work very well when cold?

[BurtonRiderT6]

The problem is.........your car is tired of being an automatic and is protesting for a manual transmission.

Sounds to me like the transmission is nearing the end of it's life. I would start looking into the cost of a junkyard transmission just to get an idea, then take the money it would cost and put it aside. Just in case.

[schierholz]

I have a set from the cleanest j.y car mabe I can clean them out make sure they click and swap.... Does reverse use a solinoid? if yes is it the top pack or the bottom pack?