Fast Guy

My mate has a FRST and can't select any gears with the engine running at the moment. He has to put it in gear before he starts the car then drive off. The clutch is biting at the bottom still, he says. (I haven't driven it) However when I turned up I cured it by standing and watching him show me the problem , but then it decided to play up again.
Any ideas? Gear linkage maybe?

Fast Guy

Has no one any idea??

o n i o n

It sounds to me that you ain't getting the full movement on your clutch cable.

The clutch is automaticaly adjusted by a ratchet type system on the pedal box inside your car. I am guessing that the teeth are worn which is causing the cable to slip and gain lots of free play.

If this is the case, what you can do is pull some of the free play out of the cable at the gearbox end (not too much or your clutch will slip like mad) and hold the cable with some vice-grips against the release bearing lever.

I hope I have worded that correctly and that it is useful, only for limp home mode though or your grips will go rusty and it's dodgy.

Fast Guy

It's worth looking at, but I 'm not sure if his clutch is actually slipping, the gears just don't want to engage with the engine running.