Clutch let go, opinions/discussion.

[Beastmode panda]

Bello boys and gyalz.

Well yesterday, last night, around the hour or 21 hundred hours.. I came off the roundabout, missed the gear for 3rd to 4th, just slid it in 4th as you would, put my head down as you would, and contiuned to drive with the feeling of shame because i missed a gear.

Anyway, my driving skillz aren't what this thread is about. So like i said, i missed the gear, put it back in 4th like you would and carried on cruising! Came to the next roundabout, down through the gears no issues. Came off the roundabout in 2nd, gave it a little blip of boost in to third, then 4th.. let off the throttle still in 4th, it popped out of gear in 4th. I then went to put it back in gear, so obviously pressed down the clutch pedal, and it was solid.. So i gently pumped the clutch pedal til it went down like normal, put it in gear and let up the clutch and it was just dead.. Nothing happened and wouldn't release. So coasted into the services, luckily enough i timed this perfectly (turns out my driving skills are actually rather good). Got out the car, popped the hood and put the car in gear manually by moving the fork on the gearbox, it went in gear fine, so i hopped in the car and tested it to see if i could drive off in gear, it wanted to bite, but it didn't and just revved when you let the clutch up instead of moving forward.

So i called the AA, yada yada he said yeah clutch has gone. Kewl beanz i thought, no worries, the clutch has never been changed anyway so that's fine.

Put it in to mr.clutch just now, as we couldn't be fucked to carry on doing a clutch change on the roadside so we pushed it along the main road which was pretty fucking funny. Got to the garage and he said it might be the box as it popped out of gear? Now im scared it might be the box AND the clutch!!

We started doing it outside my house, i took off the slave bit where you bleed it, and a little bit of fluid dripped out, not loads in any way shape or form.. Literally just dripped out a tad. He was saying somin about that? But not sure what that would mean.

Sorry for the long story but i just want to know where i stand? He said he will take the box off and see what's what. I'm 99.9% sure it's the clutch. But he worried me when he mentioned the box might be broken too...

Thanks, Rob.

[AdamB]

If it pops out of gear its usually a sign of poor synchro meshing or the selector fork isn't doing its job properly.

Best way to tell really is to drop the box and check the clutch, if thats good then its a problem with the box. Normally a clutch will slip before it lets go, unless you've destroyed the clutch into pieces.

[5T4R7ET N/A]

sometimes the clutch can just let go out of the blue, but its pretty rare as it usually start to slip first.

sounds more like a gearbox issue or slave cylinder dodgy to me.

[Beastmode panda]

That's what i mean, it's never ever once slipped!

Clutch has always been fine man :/..

I guess i will wait for a phone call off the guys down the garage and see what's what! Thanks for your replies guys.