Is my clutch on the way out.

Brasco · Post by **Brasco** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:36 pm

I've been noticing that sometimes the 2nd gear just will not engage, and also the first gear can be a bit stiff... is this a sign that my clutch could be going????

pol · Post by **pol** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:00 pm

This is what I used to think but found a different problem.

Does it ever jump out of 5th?

I had a similar sounding problem which turned out to be the nut on the end of the shaft holding one of the 5th gears on had worked loose. It isn't too hard to fix if it is this.

pol

Brasco · Post by **Brasco** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:13 pm

no, it's never jumped out of gear, but there is some movement of the stick backwards on accelerating, which is a bit unusual... could be the busted rear engine mount causing that tho?

atex61 · Post by **atex61** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:16 pm

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pol · Post by **pol** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:51 pm

That also sounds like the problem I had. I reckon it's the same thing.

I found that my 5th gear synchro had worn and eventually died. 5th gear is right on the end of the gearbox and can be accessed by removing the cover under the wheel arch.

My theory was that either the nut worked loose initially, causing the synchro to wear, or the other way around, the synchro was worn, causing a space on the shaft which caused the nut to work loose.... Either way, this meant that when gears were selected (may have just been 5th) the gear stick would fight rearwards, caused by the selector fork being able to slide slightly up and down this shaft. Makes sense in my head but if you haven't seen it it's hard to explain!

Anyway, I replaced the synchro ring, tightened everything up, re-filled the oil and it was fine...

pol

Brasco · Post by **Brasco** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:08 pm

pol wrote:5th gear is right on the end of the gearbox and can be accessed by removing the cover under the wheel arch.

Cool... well, I might be able to get at it once I've drilled out all the fused screws in the wheel arch covers *sigh*

Cheers. I will look into this one,
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pol · Post by **pol** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:30 am

You don't need to remove the main wheelarch liners, but there is a smaller rectangular plastic cover that is held in by 2 screws I think.

Behind thaty you see the black 5th gear cover. Drain the gearbox oil, then remove the 3 bolts securing the cover..... Ang on, someone has this pic as an avatar...

just checking.....

Aaaah, alfonzobonzo has it...

This is what is behind the cover...

You see the top left nut, that is what had worked loose. The selector fork slides a toothed ring around 2 gears to engage them.

Worth a look before you go removing any gearboxes.
I guess it's worth checking the clutch cable adjustment first.

pol

alfonzobonzo · Post by **alfonzobonzo** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:44 pm

EeeeYYY!!!

thats mine.