So I'm driving on a nice back road on a sunny afternoon and I come to a turn and decide to take it so I down shift. Too my surprise though it will not downshift into second... or anything and while still coasting stalled out. Wtf?? started it in nuetral, great, still wouldn't go into any gear. Shut it off, put it in first, the car lurched forward and kept crawling but wouldn't start. SO I sat on this road probably an hour before someone could tow me home. I called everyone trying to figure out how to get my car into gear. Just installed a brand new clutch 3 weeks ago, it couldn't possibly have **** the bed. But yea, I hear I'm not alone on this one. Does this look familiar?

 

with a whopping 100ish miles on it, i hate you tranny

 

Re bleed clutch, if that doesn't work, might be either the master or slave cylinder. Does the clutch pedal stick to the floor at all?

Just some ideas.

 

You're pilot bearing went kablooey. It might have been dinged around when you re-installed the transmission after the clutch change, it wasn't replaced during the clutch change, or a seal was not installed and it went bad very quickly.

 

New seal and pilot barring went in at time of the clutch, input shaft was so bound up in the pilot barring bore with all that carrnet present, it took me 2 hours to seperate the transmission from the engine once everything was unbolted, alot of prying, pulling swearing, and even some drinking

 

Did you fish around with a magnet to got all of the littly pieces out of the E-Shaft?

 

sometimes my clutch sticks to the floor and wont change gears but i can pull it out with my foot... dont know if thats the same for you or not but thats how it is for me

 

Actually, mine just did that today. I haven't had time to search about it yet, though.

 

Replace The master, slave and line. They are cheap enough and you won't have to touch it again for another 150k miles.

 

exact same thing just happened to me last week.

changed my clutch last week, and after driving 3 days about 30 miles a day, i couldnt get any gear

took forever to separate tranny, and when i finally got it, found my pilot bearing crushed to ****

just got it all back together 4 hours ago,

 

yep, replace line, master and slave then.

My vert is starting to feel spongy on the pedal, which is exaclt how my cpe felt before those components gave out.

Go to mazdatrix, you find all of what you need for 122.

 

thanks for the advice but i already replaced the line with steel braided line, new slave cylinder, new clutch and ****. i got everything new so i was really surprised when i was driving that it juat went like that. it wasnt an issue of my clutch pedal sticking or anything. it was stupid because the pedal still felt like it had all along - no change. and yes i got all the little pieces out with a magnet.

 

This is exactly what happened to me, me and my dad forgot to put a seal in when we put in my new motor and tranny, it sucked so bad, it was even more embarrising cause i got towed by my friends jetta, whom i joked on all the time for being slow, im never gonna hear the end of that

 

make sure you properly lubricate it next time

 

Wait a second, when did you tkae those pictures? before you changed the clutch, or after it screwed up and you took off the tranny? Did you check the main shaft on the tranny after the bearing screwed up like that? I can imagine it got eaten up and wasnt too happy, even with a new pilot bearing.

Either it wasnt properly lubricated. BTW did you tighten the bolts to get the tranny mated to the engine? You want to push the engine and tranny together, never use the bolts to bring it together. You usually end up screwing hte pilot bearing.

 

They do make oil bearing brass sleeves that can be used instead of the roller bearings. I had an FD that locked up under hard accellerations. Bearings were just bad enough to allow them to bind.

Tim

 

That happened to me once. I thought it was the clutch, throw out bearing, or syncros. It turned out to be the clutch fork pivot bolt broke. I ordered a new clutch before I took it a part because I that was it, but when I cracked the motor and tranny apart the ball part of the the bolt fell out. So I bought a new clutch for nothing, but the clutch was an ACT so it was a good upgrade anyway. So I would for sure pull your tranny out before I bought anything.

 

samething happend to me last fall just i got pissed off and slamed it into gear and blew up the clutch