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jasper11;14634 wrote: wrote:

thanks for your help over my crunchy gearbox , i filled the fluid up and its fine now , will keep an eye on the level to see if its losing any but so far so good

Excellent!

hi the problem of my crunchy reverse gear seemed fixed just by topping up the fluid level and has been fine for a couple of weeks . yesturday the car was driving fine in the am , in the pm i got to the end of my road and could not select gears finaly only finding 3rd and limping the car home. the gears wont select even with the engine off - has the clutch seized /broken or is it a gear linkage/ master cylinder / slave type problem ?, clutch fluid is fine

jasper11;15028 wrote: wrote:

hi the problem of my crunchy reverse gear seemed fixed just by topping up the fluid level and has been fine for a couple of weeks . yesturday the car was driving fine in the am , in the pm i got to the end of my road and could not select gears finaly only finding 3rd and limping the car home. the gears wont select even with the engine off - has the clutch seized /broken or is it a gear linkage/ master cylinder / slave type problem ?, clutch fluid is fine

That's a shame!.
If the clutch fluid is OK, you need to check whether the clutch arm is moving or not?
Also, look underneath at the gear linkage cables, they can break, or come loose. Get someone to attempt to change gear, while you're watching the cables.



Get the engine inspection cover off, and get someone to operate the clutch, you will be able to see if the clutch arm is moving or seized. If the clutch arm is moving OK, then its probably the clutch friction plate that has gone.
If the arm is not moving then there's your problem.

Photo from underneath.

I would check the cylinder as well. I had this happen on my F a few weeks back, lost all the fluid, hence no clutch, well hardly any.. Got a new one shoved it on and its been fine since

hi , had the aa out , its a snapped cable -doh ! still better than a clutch plate:)

jasper11;15032 wrote: wrote:

hi , had the aa out , its a snapped cable -doh ! still better than a clutch plate:)

Much cheaper alternative, believe me!

Not so good, the subframe needs to be dropped to get access to change a gear cable:(

Here's a how to? Translated from German but gives you a good idea.

If it's just the cable end that gone, you can get replacements here .