bad master cylinder

you sir are brilliant

yeah..... thats not air in the lines



New transmission time.

Drain the fluid. see how new it is.... or if there is flakes in it.

i changed the fluid when i pulled it off to do the tob and pivot pin, i used a dirty pan and didnt even look at it. its GREAT to know that the ****ing thing doesnt just "probably have air in the line" cus i bleed and bleed and bleed that ****er... dot 4 is nasty stuff....

pulled the trans out, get the new one on friday ( from the 94 with 100kish miles) may just open the old one up to see what went wrong.

yeah, that sounds like the synchros and blocking rings are prettu much done...


post pics of teh carnage inside if/when you get it apart!!



df

so i got it apart. not the right way... my way involved a sledge..

but either way.. i found a round magnet in 4 pieces floating around. The gears were not in as bad of shape as i expected

uhhhh.... magnet?


can you get it back together? lol

ok so i got the transmission today, got it all installed, and it shifts great


Downside if i push the clutch in all the way i get the same sound i got when the pivot pin was bad in the last transmission, i switched the pivot pin to the new one so i dont think it is bad.


so my guess is.. i did not seat the pivot pin all the way do you guys think it will solve itself by regular use of the clutch? maybe stomp the peddle a few hundred times? it does not hit if i put the stopper in.


i dont wanna pull it again..

then put the clutch stop in...




and the gears themselves are probably going to be looking ok. they're hardened. the synchros and blocking rings are brass/bronze (something) and are not as hard. they wear out with (improper) use.




df

so what exactly was the issue?

Hi, I'm no expert in this , but it would make sense to me to get his clutch sorted out, even if it means having to change out both master and slave cylinders. It would be a lot cheaper than a replacement transmission surely. If the clutch is not disengaging properly it wouldn't make any difference what tranny he put in it, the gears are still going to crash and grind.

Well like previously stated the slave was replaced and the master tested good so being that my guess was the transmission was bad i choose to spend the $200 on a good one and swap it. Which proved to be the solution as the transmission shifts great. The grinding i mentioned recently is unrelated to the transmission. Its the pivot arm hitting on the pressure plate, this is because i failed to seat the pivot in the last millimeter it needed to go in. with the stop behind the clutch peddle the clutch disengages fine and i can shift without a problem.