Post by sp0ngebob on Jan 9, 2015 17:50:47 GMT -5
if you started it with the car in gear and the pedal depressed, and the car didnt ROCKET FORWARD...like gonna cave in your garage door, shooting forward with reckless abandon...your clutch is not broken.
Im going to guess now given all the info.
with the car off can you shift through the gears and get kind of a good, normal, *chunk* or *clunk* as it goes into gear? you know what i mean? that solid feel that its in gear?
im going to assume you do at this point. with that assumed, i think your clutch cable is out of adjustment. they tend to stretch a little over time and if they do, sometimes you dont get the clutch to engage all the way. this will keep the car from shifting into gear without some grinding. and that grinding on this car will sound like a little dog growling. *grrrrr*
check the end of the cable thats on the transmission. its called a shift fork or throwout fork that the cable ataches to. this moves the throwout bearing back and forth. if the end of the cable extends wayyyy past where the fork is (when just sitting there stationary in neutral) then adjust the cable to take the slack out of the cable so the end of the cable and the end of the fork are pretty close together. This adjustment is more of an art than a science so dont worry about getting it perfect.
Also check the cable inside the car at the pedal. it looks like a "hook and bar" kind of setup. the hook being on the back of the pedal arm and the bar on the cable end. make sure thats all on there properly.
Lastly, check where the cable passes through the firewall. just trace it back from the transmission to the firewall. makesure the two bolts that hold it to the firewall are snug and present.
if none of that does anything to make it any better, check your shifter rods under the car. make sure that you arent missing the bushings or that the bushings arent all rotted away. if they are it could mean you really arent putting the car all the way into gear. The test of "did you feel the clunk or chunk into gear" will kind of flush this out.
Unless, like above mention that your clutch hub puked i doubt its a clutch issue. Ill link my thread below of how i blew out a clutch and what happened.
subarujusty.proboards.com/thread/5021/clutch-broken
Im going to guess now given all the info.
with the car off can you shift through the gears and get kind of a good, normal, *chunk* or *clunk* as it goes into gear? you know what i mean? that solid feel that its in gear?
im going to assume you do at this point. with that assumed, i think your clutch cable is out of adjustment. they tend to stretch a little over time and if they do, sometimes you dont get the clutch to engage all the way. this will keep the car from shifting into gear without some grinding. and that grinding on this car will sound like a little dog growling. *grrrrr*
check the end of the cable thats on the transmission. its called a shift fork or throwout fork that the cable ataches to. this moves the throwout bearing back and forth. if the end of the cable extends wayyyy past where the fork is (when just sitting there stationary in neutral) then adjust the cable to take the slack out of the cable so the end of the cable and the end of the fork are pretty close together. This adjustment is more of an art than a science so dont worry about getting it perfect.
Also check the cable inside the car at the pedal. it looks like a "hook and bar" kind of setup. the hook being on the back of the pedal arm and the bar on the cable end. make sure thats all on there properly.
Lastly, check where the cable passes through the firewall. just trace it back from the transmission to the firewall. makesure the two bolts that hold it to the firewall are snug and present.
if none of that does anything to make it any better, check your shifter rods under the car. make sure that you arent missing the bushings or that the bushings arent all rotted away. if they are it could mean you really arent putting the car all the way into gear. The test of "did you feel the clunk or chunk into gear" will kind of flush this out.
Unless, like above mention that your clutch hub puked i doubt its a clutch issue. Ill link my thread below of how i blew out a clutch and what happened.
subarujusty.proboards.com/thread/5021/clutch-broken