Hello Everyone,
Three days before I leave and the car breaks down. I jump in the car to run some errands, starts up just fine, shift into first and off I go. Shifted into second fine, then third no problem, but as I tried to shift to 4th I couldn't shift gears at all- Couldn't shift into neutral either. I had a foot on the brake and one on the clutch, and cut off the engine. After a bit of coaxing I finally got the car into neutral, pushed the car around and went back home.
I checked the forum history here to no avail. After thinking about it for a while, I remembered there is an intermittent squeal at start-up, and sometimes between gearshift under speed. I attributed the squeal to a belt I replaced at the beginning of summer stretching out a bit and needing to be retensioned. So I started up the car, went under the hood and upped the revs to get the squeal sound, and it's not my belts, sounds like inside the clutch housing. I tried w40 on the clutch lever and it doesn't help anything. The clutch lever doesn't move much if I try to move it by hand (maybe that's how it is supposed to be). The clutch pedal itself doesn't seem to have the same "action" as it once had, the pedal feels like it is starting to engage the clutch half way through the total range of motion of the pedal.
I'm grasping at straws here, any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Steve
By the way- is there a Haynes manual for the 4L? I have the "revue technique" but it's best to have as many sources as possible.
Three days before I leave and the car breaks down. I jump in the car to run some errands, starts up just fine, shift into first and off I go. Shifted into second fine, then third no problem, but as I tried to shift to 4th I couldn't shift gears at all- Couldn't shift into neutral either. I had a foot on the brake and one on the clutch, and cut off the engine. After a bit of coaxing I finally got the car into neutral, pushed the car around and went back home.
I checked the forum history here to no avail. After thinking about it for a while, I remembered there is an intermittent squeal at start-up, and sometimes between gearshift under speed. I attributed the squeal to a belt I replaced at the beginning of summer stretching out a bit and needing to be retensioned. So I started up the car, went under the hood and upped the revs to get the squeal sound, and it's not my belts, sounds like inside the clutch housing. I tried w40 on the clutch lever and it doesn't help anything. The clutch lever doesn't move much if I try to move it by hand (maybe that's how it is supposed to be). The clutch pedal itself doesn't seem to have the same "action" as it once had, the pedal feels like it is starting to engage the clutch half way through the total range of motion of the pedal.
I'm grasping at straws here, any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Steve
By the way- is there a Haynes manual for the 4L? I have the "revue technique" but it's best to have as many sources as possible.