Shifting woes
Shifting woes Car is '99 with 45k on the odometer.
Problem:
Occasionally its hard to push the shifter into gears (has nearly happened on every gear so far). It can happen at any speeds even at idle, but the problem occurs infrequently leading me to believe its not an internal tranny problem(hopefully!), as its occurred with almost every gear so far. Basically you can push the shifter into the "gate" before you make the last small notch into the actual gear which makes you believe you're in gear but when you start letting go of the clutch it starts grinding.
I'm thinking its either the clutch hydraulics or the clutch itself as the problem doesn't always occur, I'm leaning more to the hydraulics, but I'm not sure as you can tell with my post here. My clutch fluid does seem to lean to the brown/slowly turning very dark color.
Problem:
Occasionally its hard to push the shifter into gears (has nearly happened on every gear so far). It can happen at any speeds even at idle, but the problem occurs infrequently leading me to believe its not an internal tranny problem(hopefully!), as its occurred with almost every gear so far. Basically you can push the shifter into the "gate" before you make the last small notch into the actual gear which makes you believe you're in gear but when you start letting go of the clutch it starts grinding.
I'm thinking its either the clutch hydraulics or the clutch itself as the problem doesn't always occur, I'm leaning more to the hydraulics, but I'm not sure as you can tell with my post here. My clutch fluid does seem to lean to the brown/slowly turning very dark color.
Update:
Was testing some stuff while coming home from work today.
While I was idle I was testing the shifting and the first shift with the clutch down seemed to be hard to go into gear(any gear), while any subsequent shift while the clutch was still down was a lot smoother. If you let go of the clutch and press it down again the process was restarted, first shift hard(any gear) then any subsequent shifts were once again easy.
Also, when I shutoff my car at home I tested shifting and the shifting seemed a lot smoother while the engine was off.
What could all this mean?
Was testing some stuff while coming home from work today.
While I was idle I was testing the shifting and the first shift with the clutch down seemed to be hard to go into gear(any gear), while any subsequent shift while the clutch was still down was a lot smoother. If you let go of the clutch and press it down again the process was restarted, first shift hard(any gear) then any subsequent shifts were once again easy.
Also, when I shutoff my car at home I tested shifting and the shifting seemed a lot smoother while the engine was off.
What could all this mean?
