Hey guys, I was driving my car last night and when I got off the highway, it became very tough to shift into gear. Each gear (namely 1st and reverse), have to be pressed pretty hard in order to get it in. Every now and then, any given gear will stick. Taking off in first and reverse is somewhat rough, and requires little to no clutch release for movement. When I slow down in first, the car shudders a little as well. I just finished bleeding the clutch, so I'm left to believe that it's either my slave cylinder (hopefully) or my throw out bearing (which would SUCK). I just installed the clutch 10k miles ago when I put my new motor in. Unfortunately, the motor is not sitting on a pad this time, and I'm not going through the work of pulling the tranny, restabbing it, etc., again. Can anyone offer an opinion or similar situation they've had as a reference for me please? I don't know the symptoms of clutch or slave cylinder failures, so I hate to sound like a moron, but ANY advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks guys.

 

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If you have properly bled your slave cylinder and the clutch is 10K old, (assuming you havent beat your car) I would guess it would be the slave cylinder. Its cheap and easy to replace. If that doesnt fix it, drop your transmission.

 

OMG, i hv the exactly same problem right now, i found out it's my clutch master cylinder leak, replace it, bleed it, good for couple days. then problem came back. I really don't wanna pull the tranny

 

as long as everything is bleed you should be good in that department. I had a similar problem with my clutch after a couple full throttle shifts and ended up being the infamous piece of clutch disc around the spring broke off.

 

it become better these two days, just once or twice time a day, it stick. just the pedal still a little bit low.