Very hard getting in gear, fixed itself?

Throwback23 · Jul 18, 2012

This morning i went for a drive and had no problems shifting at all. I parked the car for a few hours and as i went to drive again i noticed it was extremly hard to get into any gear. The tranny was not making any odd noises and slave fluid was at a good level, anyhow i drove across town and parked at a freinds. I had her pump the clutch with the car off to see if i could hear anything, a few pumps later i heard a clink noise near or around the starter area. I want to say it sounded like a clip poping in sort of noise.... now it shifts into gears just fine but im left wondering what it was and how to prevent it... any input helps, thanks!

boostlife7 · Jul 18, 2012

i had that problem with my twin turbo stealth, i let it go and found out my flywheel bolts had backed out and end up replacing it. hope that hepls.

fonzi90Tsi · Jul 18, 2012

If your clutch is sprung then it could have been a spring.

Has it ever been changed?

Throwback23 · Jul 18, 2012

From what previous owner had documented I would guess the clutch has about 45,000 on it, its a sprung clutchnet setup. Another bit of info is that the pedal felt normal the whole drive. hey boostlife did it end up going away until you dug in and found out it was that or did you continue to have problems?

98Eagle · Jul 18, 2012

I had the same symptoms you are describing, fine one day and impossible to get my clutch to disengage the next. In my case it ended up that the tip of one side of my clutch fork broke off. Upon removing the trans, the throw out bearing was broken as well. I would pull off that rubber boot at the bottom of your clutch fork and check out what you can from there.

boostlife7 · Jul 21, 2012

Throwback23 said:
From what previous owner had documented I would guess the clutch has about 45,000 on it, its a sprung clutchnet setup. Another bit of info is that the pedal felt normal the whole drive. hey boostlife did it end up going away until you dug in and found out it was that or did you continue to have problems?

It's went away for like two days, then I woke up to goto the exhaust shop and i couldn't get it into gear when I was on the way there. So i got it in third gear and had to baby it to the shop and then it failed.

Throwback23 · Aug 10, 2012

Well, got around to pulling my tranny today and here's the result....looks like its time to go clutch shopping, the flywheel has all sorts of tiny cracks also. I'm going to give the xtd stage 4 a shot since I'm on a budget right now; the general consensus is that its a solid clutch so we will see how it goes.... I'm assuming this clutch took a beating before I got the car due to that I've only put 3k of pretty normal driving on it since trading for the car