Listers,
There have been a few replies suggesting that bleeding the clutch might work -
but this sounds to me more like a gearbox problem than a clutch problem. When
you put your foot to the floor, the clutch either disengages completely, in
which case it works, or doesn't disengage completely, in which case it doesn't
work. I've never heard of one which works a couple of seconds after you depress
it.
I had some similar symptoms a while ago, shifting between 2nd and 3rd, and this
turned out to be the selector fork. It seems like when I moved the gearstick
between the 1/2 position and the 3/4 position, the forks didn't engage/disengage
the gear clusters correctly - but after a second or two, everything worked it's
way into place.
Eventually, the fork broke completely and the car was permanently in 2nd gear -
I needed to replace the gearbox. Doug, I don't yours is the same problem, since
the problem I had wouldn't affect shifting between 3rd and 4th, but if you can't
find anything wrong with the clutch, start looking at the gearbox. (The clutch
is a good place to start, though - simply because it's cheaper!)
I hope I'm not leading you up the wrong path with this e-mail......
Dean
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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:28:48 -0400
From: "dugan127" <dugan127@buffnet.net>
Subject: Grinding Gears
I have a '79 Spitfire and am having trouble shifting gears. When trying to
shift between 2/3 and 3/4 I get some grinding, unless I depress the clutch,
then wait a couple seconds and then shift. Could this be a bad slave
cylinder or maybe just need bleeding?
Thanks for any help,
Doug Carlson
'79 Spitfire
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