Hey, I admit I didn't do a whole lot of searching before starting this thread, so I'm sorry if this has been beat to death already, but I've got a limited amount of time so here it goes.

Since the beginning of last summer, I've had problems with the car getting into gear.

1st instance, July: pushing in the clutch wouldn't disengage it and the car wouldn't change gears. Replaced the master cylinder. Done.

2nd instance, November, same problem but less severe. The clutch wouldn't fully disengage but still worked to a certain extent. Replaced the slave cylinder. Done.

Now, here I am less than 15,000 miles after replacing both and I'm having the same problem. I don't know if the clutch is disengaging or not, but It's becoming increasingly more difficult to get the car into gear. Also, when trying to put it into reverse, I've had it grind on me once or twice. I'm getting really fed up here, and I'm not sure what else it could be. I just dropped $800 on other miscellaneous repairs so I'm on the end of my rope here. The car has always been well cared for and never tracked. It does have 130,000 miles on it, and I'm at the point where everything is starting to go at once, so I'm hoping there's something small that I might be missing. Help?

Cliff notes : having trouble putting the car into gear. feels like clutch isn't disengaging all the way. New slave and master cylinder. Discuss...


Thanks for your help guys.

 

i know for my self i had clutch cable link broke on me and had that replaced seems to have solved that problem for me at least, so see if maybe that link is broken

 

Found the problem. I was missing one of the bolts that holds the clutch assembly to the fire wall. When I pushed the pedal in, it would come off the wall and lose the tension. I must have left it out when I put the master in a couple months ago. Simple fix, but I feel dumb.

 

ha! That was a fast fix!

 

Good job :......130 k and no problems I'll have mine when I'm 60 lol , I only have 55k

 

I plan on keeping mine for that long as well! I was at 55k until I started my 45 min (w/no traffic) drive to school 4 days a week, 2 times a day. Now I'm at 60k and I plan on doing the big service as soon as I get my house credit!