shifting got so tough..

[jay-d]

yesterday the car was perfect, shifting was easy with the clutch depressed. I came home, parked the car over night and the next day I took th ecar out, the clutch felt.. weird, like.. softer and the gears wouldn't go into gear, i had to force them with both hands.

I live in canada, so thought the tranny fluid was cold as ice, but that wasn't the case. When the car is off, the shifting is smooth as butter, but when the car is idling and going into any gear its rock hard. When the car is moving, shifting is normal.. only when the car is at a dead idle.. i think my clutch isn't releasing all the way...

I checked the clutch fluid, its still good.. i thought maybe i had no tranny fluid left, but nope, thast topped up as well.. any ideas??

 

[TalonTSi-AWD91]

First check and see if you can adjust your master cylinder rod out a little bit more. If you can't adjust that far enough check to see if the master or slave cylinder have gone bad. Could possibly be air in your line too.

 

[spyder98]

jay-d,

E-mail me if you can with what you find out. I had a similar experience with my clutch as you described. Any info. you can lend would be helpful. Thanks.

 

[jay-d]

found out the problem, so stupid. My clutch fluid was empty.. i didn't bother to open the resevoir and look, i just sort of peered through and it looked full but really it was just the darkness of the brakefluid that make the resevoir look full. It has stained the white resevoir.

Mechanics bled the clutch line and topped it up, no leaks, so basically somehow the clutch fluid evaorapted or something.. not sure how that is possible, maybe someone can fill in the blanks on how a resevoir just goes empty?

 

[TalonTSi-AWD91]

Check your master and slave cylinder. Mine was dirty and nasty like that too when the master cylinder was bad.