hey everyone

last night i was driving from home from work and all of a sudden i found it super hard to change in to first and gear. it was like i didnt have my foot on the clutch.

i checked to see how much oil is in the gearbox and there is plenty of oil in it.

i have 1st and 2nd ppg straight cuts and i was wondering if maybe a couple of teeth are missing from the gears or the selector forks are gone??


any advice would be appriciated thanks


Tim

synchros?

when you do get it in gear is it making a knockig sound while driving, that would be chipped teeth.

nah its not knocking when it finally goes in its not a problem. but trying to get it in is. its makes a grinding sound like i am trying to put it in first without using the clutch

Sounds like syncros..

ppg gear sets tend to chew through them..

It dose sound strange that all of sudden you cant change gears though.. normally you can feel them getting notchy till eventually your grinding gears...

could be selector fork?

Anyway sounds like a gearbox out job

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pressure plate fail, master cylinder could be poo, thrust bearing fail.....all of the above.

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Bit weird that it does all of a sudden fuck itself. Grinding is usually a indication of synchromeshs pooping themselves.

"If your car has a synchromesh gearbox it is recommended you do not double-de-clutch as this can cause undue wear on the synchro rings"

Is this true? :/

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Im with jme, sounds like clutch related issue to me.
Had something similar happen to me. Fluid not making it to the clutch.
Had to smash it into gear.

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when i got the motor put in they said the clutch had wore down but they said that i still had a while to go b4 i needed a new one.

looks like i will have to take it to a workshop and get them to look at it.

thanks for all the help guys

I do it all the time. I cant see it wearing synchro's out though. Changing down gears without double de clutch though

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Nah, not a worn out clutch, something wrong to stop the clutch disengaging fully.

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