Car won't go into gear
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Car won't go into gear
So my 86 non turbo drove fine for 1200 miles on a rebuild. Than one day she decided not to go int gear. It will drive fine for some time ,but than it comes a day where it won't go into any of the gears. I've replaced the clutch, pressure plate, slave, and master cyclinder at the time of the build. Sine day one I have had problems with my idle being about 1000 rpm's, which my boss thinks the idle is too high not allowing the clutch to engage. If that is the problem, why did the car drive fine for so long?
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it will go into gear aok with engine off,, and not when engine running= spigot bearing dragging
other likely issue with no select,, engine running and not
is over-selected gearbox
and sometimes issues with the reverse switch interfering and keeping reverse gear selected
and ( very common in the old school boxes ) is the clutch fork splitting around its pivot
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just be sure somebody observes the clutch fork moving while you press the clutch to rule out another hydraulic issue
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other common cause for this issue is when an organic clutch disk lining splits and fails between rivets and you end up with 1 section of it jammed under another
other common cause for this issue is when an organic clutch disk lining splits and fails between rivets and you end up with 1 section of it jammed under another
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If you can't get into any gear, inspect hydraulics, if that is good, problem lies with bad transmission internals or possibly just a bad detent ball preventing shifter from going into gear. You should be able to move into gear with engine off, even with no clutch pedal pushed in.
Can you move the shifter left and right in neutral?> There is a thread around here about someone solving their problem due to a bad detent ball, I don't feel like looking it up for you.
Can you move the shifter left and right in neutral?> There is a thread around here about someone solving their problem due to a bad detent ball, I don't feel like looking it up for you.
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all hydraulics are good. it goes in when car is off. from time to time it wont go into any gears. i can walk away for a few minutes and she ll be fine. I dont think its an internal issue
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If that's the case, before you pull the transmission again you might want to remove the shift lever and with your fingers or whatever , fish around in cavity where the shift lever was and see if you can find remnants of an old shifter bushing causing the problem. It only takes the removal of three 10mm size small bolts to pull the shifter out. And what the heck, if your going to remove the transmission anyway it would help to have the shifter out of the way..anyway. So your not really wasting any time doing that.
But if your quote did not mean what I wrote..........just press on doing what you were going to do and ignore this.
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Sorry hailers. I meant when the car is off, it shifts fine. WHen its running it'll shift fine but from time to time it wont go into any gear, than randomly it will.
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,, 50/50 spigot bearing or its torn the strip off the organic clutch plate and doubled it up
with the roughy outsider being a broken clutch fork around the pivot dimple
tomorrow we shall see
with the roughy outsider being a broken clutch fork around the pivot dimple
tomorrow we shall see
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it was definately the pilot bearing, there was no bearngs left. I did run into a problem, i broke my blinde hole puller and whats remaining of the pilot bearing. i cant get the rest out. I tried grinding it out and after quite a bit im scared im going to hit the e shaft. any suggestions