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  • Drifter-XT
    Advanced Member
    • Dec 2004
    • 110

    #1

    need help!

    Hey guys, need some help! I've been searching on here and other forums for over a week and really haven't found to much info! two weeks ago, the tranny in my e30 became really hard to shift into gears. It got to the point where I wasn't able to get it into gear without some force. I stopped at a light and forced it into first and the car didn't even move til it felt like it poped in gear and started to move again! I parked it and the next morning I get in it, put it in gear and it won't move in any gear! Feels like if I have the ebrake on! After that I left the car running and i put it in neutal to push the car on to my driveway and it stalled, like if it was in gear, even though the shifter is in neutral! When I turned it on again, and let off the clutch, the car started to move and felt like it was in second gear. I even drove it around my neighborhood without an issue in neutral, but when I tried to put it in gear, it wouldn't go in any gear. Now my clutch peddle feels normal! It doesn't fall to the floor or anything! And when I shut the car off, the car returns back to neutral! What the hell is going on? Need some advise guys!

    Also forgot to mention, when the shifter started to get stiff going into gears, there was a nasty clunking noise coming from the transmission! But I onlt heard the clunking in first, second and third gear! Fourth and fifth were smooth and noise free!
    Last edited by Drifter-XT; 09-13-2011, 02:00 PM.
  • jlevie
    R3V OG
    • Nov 2006
    • 13530

    #2
    My first guess, given the symptom, woulb be that the clutch isn't fully releasing. That could be a problem with the clutch hydraulics (specifically a bad master cylinder) or a problem with the clutch itself.
    The car makes it possible, but the driver makes it happen.
    Jim Levie, Huntsville, AL

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    • Drifter-XT
      Advanced Member
      • Dec 2004
      • 110

      #3
      Thanks Jlevie, will check the master cylinder! Thanks again! I just hope its not the clutch!

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      • bmwguy325is
        E30 Fanatic
        • May 2011
        • 1262

        #4
        UMM Long shot but maybe ur tranny mounts are gone or the shift is all messed up bound up somehow.
        sigpic"If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself." -Ferdinand Porsche
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