its an 88 crx my friends car, its not the clutch and they cant figure out why it wont go. do any of yall know what it may be?

 

****! That narrows it down.

 

he says he can put it in gear without touching the clutch while its running and it dosent do anything

 

check the clutch & cable....

 

so its not eganging the clutch , check cable...might be the clutch even if you say its not ? Dunno check the stupid stuff first

 

he said the car is running he dont even touch the clutch pedal he puts it in 1st and it dont move or die it just sits there he checked the cable he said it was fine.

 

sounds to me his clutch is toasted

 

Yeah, more than likely the clutch is gone. If he has jackstands put it up on jackstands, fire it up and do the same thing. If the wheels start moving faster than they normally do (there's residual motion even in neutral) then at least the tranny works.

 

Just make sure it doesnt jurk and die or something! That wouldnt be good on stands. Also ask him if he smells somehting funny

 

hey said they checked the clutch today and it was good and he said he smells nothing funny


[Modified by CRXtc 90, 2:09 AM 5/26/2002]

 

Ok im running short now, Sycros maybe fucked, or the tranny may have just went bad if its not the clutch and its not pulling or going into gear

 

what are sycros

 

? Damn Ive never heard that. Mine went real bad , but just got really loud

 

he's puzzled too and i have no idea i figured cable he said he might get a new one any way

 

how but check your shifter linkage it prolly fell off. Does it do this in every gear???????/

 

He could have a bad differential or busted-*** cv joints.

 

I reeeeeeally don't think it's the clutch cable. Think about it, if the tranny and clutch are still good and you try to put it in gear with a busted cable, you're not disengaging the tranny. You'll grind gears like you wouldn't believe.

Look, 99/100 times you're going to have to remove the transmission if there's a problem like this. Try this: Reach down with your arm and pull up on the clutch fork. If you can pull it right the hell up, then either your a) clutch, b) throwout bearing, c) release fork, d) fork spring, or something along those lines, is shot. If there's a broken axle or something then you'll be able to SEE that really easily. And if the shift linkage is disconnected there won't be any 'putting it in gear', you'll just feel the shifter flop all around (I know because mine fell off before and I had to fix it with a shoelace in the school parking lot ).

 

yeah i just thouught of that. You wouldnt be able to so called put it into first if there was no shift linkage it would jkust be like a joystick. Maybe someone stole your axles overnight.


Did this happen overnight????????

 

So did he take off the tranny and check the clutch?

 

Oh man, thats bad. I'd have to say that something is f'd up in the tranny. Otherwise it would grind like a ****!!!

 

sounds like the input shaft is broke.

 

Sounds like someone stole your gears out of your tranny !

 

check the cv joints. but how did he check the clutch without taking the tranny off, or did he?

 

raene gets a cookie

well ladies and gentlemen...raene was right, it was, in fact, the throwout bearing. have any of you ever pulled apart a tranny? you know how the bearing has the two little ears that connect to the spring on the transmission that pulls the bearing back in after the fork pushes it out? well one of the ears broke off (only God knows how) and it was just holding the clutch off the flywheel or whatever...you know... and that's why...so raene definitely gets daps for getting that question right.

oh, and by the way, i'm the dude with the CRX with the tranny problem. thanks for trying to help guys, but i got the e-mail from jarrett about 8 hours too later for it to help any, hehehe. thanks anyway guys.

 

well nice to see you finally decided to register jujubean