I was driving down the highway yesterday and my car just stopped moving. I was in traffic and I went to go and my car wouldnt move it would just rev up as if it was in neutral and I had to like force it into gear....it didnt want to go into any gear. I got out and opened the hood and smelt the clutch burning........do you think my clutch went up or the whole tranny.????

 

If your clutch was bad, then you should have noticed it getting bad a long time ago. They don't really "go" without a warning, unless something legitimately busts off inside, in which case you'd probably get some kind of noise.

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Yeah, I agree.

 

I noticed it going bad like it was hard to get in some gears like i would have to release the clutch and press it again to get into gear for example i would push the clutch in to go into first and it wouldnt go into gear so i would have to release the clutch then press it again and it would go into gear and now i am at the point where it wont move and wont go into any gear do you think its the clutch?

 

a bad clutch won't make it hard to get in gear. if your clutch was going bad, you'd notice it at stops, when you try to pull out, your engine will rev faster than your car pulls out. it would kind of feel like you're racing your clutch.

now, if you're just having trouble getting into gear, it is *possible* that your clutch isn't disengaging far enough. look down on top of your transmission, the outside of the clutch cable is held by a bracket, and the inside part of the cable attaches to the lever on your transmission. anyway, at that bracket, there will be a big plastic nut (sometimes white and sometimes black) that you can turn by hand. it's pretty hard to turn sometimes, but give it a couple turns to the right and see if that doesn't help.

If that doesn't do anything for you, then you probably have a transmission problem.

By the way, what are you driving?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by GetCaughtDead &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">a bad clutch won't make it hard to get in gear. if your clutch was going bad, you'd notice it at stops, when you try to pull out, your engine will rev faster than your car pulls out. it would kind of feel like you're racing your clutch.

now, if you're just having trouble getting into gear, it is *possible* that your clutch isn't disengaging far enough. look down on top of your transmission, the outside of the clutch cable is held by a bracket, and the inside part of the cable attaches to the lever on your transmission. anyway, at that bracket, there will be a big plastic nut (sometimes white and sometimes black) that you can turn by hand. it's pretty hard to turn sometimes, but give it a couple turns to the right and see if that doesn't help.

If that doesn't do anything for you, then you probably have a transmission problem.

By the way, what are you driving?</TD></TR></TABLE>

you contradict yourself

 

actually I'm not. the latter of the two problems is in the clutch cable. not a bad clutch. bad clutch wouldn't make it hard to get in gear, but if the clutch isnt' disengageing properly, then it very well could be tough to shift.

 

What kind of tranny do do have? Cable or hydro? Check the cable and adjust the linkage or neccesary. For the hydro, you gotta check the fluid and slave cylinder also, just like your brake system.

 

that's a good point, supd. I just assumed he had a cable tranny from looking at his sig, but I guess that's never a guaranty.

 

yea, i had the same problem on my gsr

 

i work at a transmission shop in utah, garentee trans not clutch.

 

also you may of fused your throw out bearing, or cracked the flywheel real nice and good. take it apart and find out

 

yes i have a cable tranny........i know it is not the cable needing to be adjusted I checked that. I know it is nothing minor like that anyways I was driving down the highway and it just threw itself out of gear and i had to use alot of strength to try to get the shifter to go into the gears again I had to be towed home and the car does not move at all it just revs up and when I let the clutch out it starts to stall like I am trying to start in 4th gear from a stopped position or something.

 

heh it happen to me last thus night my clutch went out and it was 5 years old clutch damn lol but i havent got it fixed yet but it deffy ur clutch is out

 

It grinds when you try to put it back into gear right? I had an interesting problem with my clutch. I was going down the road and suddenly the rpms were just going up, but the car wasn't going anywhere. I couldn't put it into gear and it made weird noises other than grinding when I tried to put it into gear. I ended up finding out that my clutch (ACT 6 puck) had put a machined groove into my pressureplate (ACT Heavy Duty Pressure Plate) and my Flywheel (Stock). The groove became worse and worse....also, the splines on the clutch hub were completely stripped. The splines on the transmission (shaft) were not stripped at all. To this day I have yet to find out what caused this condition. Doesn't matter though, I have my new LSD tranny waiting to be installed with a turbokit...but just wanted to let you know this could happen. Makes it hard to put into gear too.

 

my car goes nowhere right now and i went out to look at it today started it up and tried to put it into gear and move it and it felt like it wasnt going anywhere it just revved up then it felt like it caught gear for like a second and moved forward a tiny amount and then it was like it threw it out of gear and then wouldnt go anywhere again

 

any other opinions

 

when it did move, was it while you adjusted the clutch petal? Also, was it a smooth transition to moving or a sudden "pop" and move thing or a pop when you stopped.

 

no it wasnt while i adjusted the clutch pedal and it was going nowhere then pop and very slow slight movement then before i even moved a foot there was another pop and no movement just reving again

 

did ur clutch blow up maybe? because that happened to my friends clutch, it was blown up, it felt like transmission was shot... but then we took it apart and there was peices off the clutch that were browken off and stuck in the clutch springs... maybe that happened?HTH

 

thats what im trying to find out i think its the clutch but i want to be sure kind of on a slim budget right now and this is my daily driver so....you know the routine

 

Im 99% sure your tranny Is dusted. Start looking to rebuild. Install a new oem clutch while everything is apart. Do it right the first time. Otherwise you'll pay more in the long run

 

I hope it isnt the tranny I really want an excuse to buy a aftermarket clutch and I cant afford to rebuild and buy the clutch right now. I either have to pick up a used tranny or get a aftermarket clutch for my tranny so hopefully it is just the clutch

 

The clutch could be fine and you wouldnt think it was bad ,But the springs on the clutch could have came out of place . therfore the clutch would not engage. have seen problem alot.

 

you might be able to tell if the clutch is falling apart by taking off the flywheel dust cover between the tranny and engine. HTH