3rd gear sounds like gears are chewing each other up when trying to go in. But what is weird is that it happend all of sudden tonight when just cruising. And then i stoped the car and was at zero rpms and pressed the clutch all the way to the floor and when trying to put the shifter into third it grinded heavy again. Ive never had this problem before. Later on when the car was off i moved the shifter side to side and it sounded like a clip or something was loose on the shifter or linkage. I have a act street disk on my evo 9. What should i do, should i raise the clutch pedal higher? It's at about the same height as the brake pedal already. could it have something to do with the shifter linkage needing some new adjusting, or could i have a bent cable or something?

 

just moved the shifter side to side again and it sounds like a clip is jiggling around. Is that normal?

 

A few things... Synchro came loose or the shift fork is jacked up. All internal. One outside chance, since you hear a sound while moving the shifter, is the select lever shoe which is mounted under the control lever on the gearbox. This is all part of the assembly that your cables mount to. The smaller lever is the select lever. The bigger one is the control lever. If the shoe comes all the way off, you'll have issues of 1st gear becoming third gear and third gear remaining third gear, and you'll only get to first gear if you downshift.

 

Now 3rd is not grinding at all anymore but first was just giving me a little bit of problem not wanting to go in and pressed the clutch again and it when in it just happened a couple of times before. Do you have any pictures of what you describing. Like how to take out the center console without breaking anything?

 

check your cables. its more common then you think.