ive got a t reg escort van 1.8 and today as i came off the motorway i couldnt select first and second but then i stop went to the bank came back and it was perfectly fine? any ideas whats going wrong? not had this long ether

 

Could be worth checking/renewing gearbox oil and checking for play in gear selector rod balljoints.

 

the gear stick became really stiff when it done this aswell, then once sorted was loose again

 

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sounds like a problem i had with my old mk3 golf gti, it just would not select 1st 2nd and sometimes 3rd on random ocassions, oh yeah and reverse, just would not go in.

Sometimes double clutching made it go in, but you will find it will get worse and worse and happen more often if you leave it.

As it happens i was selling my golf so i never got it fixed

 

oh rite did you every find out what was causing it tho?

 

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could very well be your clutch on it's way out mate, i had exactly the same problem at first it would get stuck in 4th after giving it a blast it was a 1.4 then cure itself it got worse and i started having trouble with all the gears was fine when cold but after a bit of a run it would play up, is it biting pretty high, i'd take a guess your clutch is on it's way out tbh as it sounds just like what i had

 

nah it feels fine normally but then randomly does it i mean its been fine all weeks took it out for ablast last night to try and get it to do it but nothing doesnt make sense lol

 

lol it wont do mate i had exactly the same if you have a search through my threads i'v posted i had exactly the same it wasn't uniform i didn't think it was the clutch at first but fitted one just to rule it out and it cured the problem straight off, the clutch wasn't even to the rivits neither and also it never slipped i just used to get a problem selecting gears every now and again like said it'd mainly get stuck in 4th for me but when it got really bad it started to do it in most gears, i was told the selector and that but if it'll still select gears once engine is off then the linkage should be fine.

try the gearbox oil first as it's the easiest and cheapest but then i'd be looking at your clutch, when was it last changed and how many miles has it got?

 

okiess then thanks will check the selector any way but will change the gearbox oil hopefully it aint the clutch i dunno really when it was changer the vans done about 140000miles so quite alot but still drive fine apart from that now and again but aint done it all week so who knows