Ok, so my buddya has a 94 EX. Bout 2 wks ago he shifted into 3rd and got a nasty grinding noise, so he coasted to a stop, went to start in first, the clutch angaged really hard and then there was nothing. He couldnt put it into any gears at all. Assumed it was the tranny. He bought a used 1.5 tranny, we swapped them out, but now if the car isnt running we can put it into gear, but if it is running it wont go into any gear... if you start it while in a gear it starts, then as soon as you let off the clutch its grinds real bad and engages hard. Possibly a clutch issue not a tranny issue? I looked at the clutch when the tranny was out it looked fine but I never took it off the flywheel, and I dont understand why we would have clutch dissengagement since it didnt move while in gear when we started it if the clutch was gone... So does anyone have any ideas? Its sitting in my drive, he lives an hour away, and has no other vehicle so we need to get this fixed ASAP!! Any help or suggestions would be great.

 

Sounds like your clutch isn't fully dissenging. You mean to say you swapped the tranny and didn't take the clutch pp + disc off to look at it?

I just had symptoms exactly like this and my clutch disc looked like this:



That spring was dragging on the pp and causing the clutch not to fully dissengage, which in turn made shifting very hard... Actually in the end, I couldn't shift at all, unless the car was off.

I would be willing to bet that the clutch is physically messed up.

Otherwise:

Check the following common things that cause the clutch not to dissengage.

- Fork is dislodged
- Clutch line has air(did you open the lines or bend a line?)
- clutch master or slave is bad (check for leaks by clutch pedal and by slave cyl)
- Clutch pp isn't on right and/or not disengaging the disc due to physical damage

Just a couple thoughts. Hope this helps.

Junior