Hey guys,
On my way back from the FSAE shop tonight I was in fifth gear rolling up to a stop light. I put in the clutch and went to slide it into fourth but it wouldnt go, into any gear even. So I stopped at the stop light and it was really hard to force to shifter into gear, like it took a good amount of pressure and revving it to get it in there. Then when I would try ot leave the light it would just die on me. So i put it into nuetral and when I would release the clutch it would just die. I eventually slipped it into third and it would start rollingforward a little and then after that i slipped it in first and it was fine. The clutch engaged really high after that though and I know you can adjust it but I am curious as to what might have caused this so it's something I can fix. Thanks a lot for any input you guys have. My only guess is that it might have gotten stuck in fifth but i dont know what that would happen, shift linkage maybe? As far as the car goes its a stock D16A6 with a stock clutch. The shifter is a dc sports shot shift kit with poly busings. Thanks guys,
Matt

 

anyone?

 

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sounds like a clutch or tranny problem. this sort of thing happened with my friends tranny, turned out a gear broke off his final drive and jammed it up in there. you weren't beating on the car beforehand, were you?

 

no i was cruising in fifth at about 55 mph. I would be very dissapointed if it was a trans problem lol

 

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when that happened to us we were in the same gear, same speed, but about 2 hours before we were trying to see how fast we could get the car. little did we know the tranny had a slight leak and it was low on oil... try draining your tranny and seeing if its got 2 quarts of oil in it like its supposed to.

 

hmm thta would suck , i will have to do that though, i was planning on putting some GM syncromesh in it anyway, now it shifts fine but it is a bit noiser which could be explained byu the low tranny fluid. thanks guys

 

change the oil.....I had the same problem... You need about 2.2quarts in your tranny....I use GM synchromesh.....just b/c everone said too....to take care of it.