Help! Problem with clutch/tranny, car shifts hard into gear.
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Help! Problem with clutch/tranny, car shifts hard into gear.
OK the other day I was pulling into my friends driveway going like ~20 so I put my foot on the break as I turn in and downshift from 2nd to 1st. As I push the stick into first I got the "bzzzzzzz cant find them grind them" noise and the stick like shot back and jolted my hand. As I was driving down the road I noticed it was becoming harder and harder to shift and the clutch pedal had lost most of its resistance. I pulled over and found that I couldn't even put the car into any gear, it just wouldnt budge. After waiting a while I ve managed to get it into gear a few times but its completely random on if it will go in/come out easily or even at all. The tranny and clutch fluid are full. Any ideas on what happened? I really hope I didn't blow the tranny cause I am broke right now. Oh yeah clutch is brand new ACT stage 2 with 3500 miles on it.
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Re: Help! Problem with clutch/tranny, car shifts hard into gear.
Originally posted by chris1234p
OK the other day I was pulling into my friends driveway going like ~20 so I put my foot on the break as I turn in and downshift from 2nd to 1st. As I push the stick into first I got the "bzzzzzzz cant find them grind them" noise and the stick like shot back and jolted my hand. As I was driving down the road I noticed it was becoming harder and harder to shift and the clutch pedal had lost most of its resistance. I pulled over and found that I couldn't even put the car into any gear, it just wouldnt budge. After waiting a while I ve managed to get it into gear a few times but its completely random on if it will go in/come out easily or even at all. The tranny and clutch fluid are full. Any ideas on what happened? I really hope I didn't blow the tranny cause I am broke right now. Oh yeah clutch is brand new ACT stage 2 with 3500 miles on it.
OK the other day I was pulling into my friends driveway going like ~20 so I put my foot on the break as I turn in and downshift from 2nd to 1st. As I push the stick into first I got the "bzzzzzzz cant find them grind them" noise and the stick like shot back and jolted my hand. As I was driving down the road I noticed it was becoming harder and harder to shift and the clutch pedal had lost most of its resistance. I pulled over and found that I couldn't even put the car into any gear, it just wouldnt budge. After waiting a while I ve managed to get it into gear a few times but its completely random on if it will go in/come out easily or even at all. The tranny and clutch fluid are full. Any ideas on what happened? I really hope I didn't blow the tranny cause I am broke right now. Oh yeah clutch is brand new ACT stage 2 with 3500 miles on it.
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I don't really know much about clutches or how the master or slave cylinder work. How do I check?
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Originally posted by chris1234p
I don't really know much about clutches or how the master or slave cylinder work. How do I check?
I don't really know much about clutches or how the master or slave cylinder work. How do I check?
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Anyone out there that can give me a run down on how to troubleshoot my problem? I really would like to set my mind at ease and not worry that my whole tranny is shot.
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and the clutch pedal had lost most of its resistance.
If its not that, then its either a leak in the master cylinder on the firewall or the (stock) rubber hydrolic line running from the metal pipe on the firewall to the slave cylinder.
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