hi all need help! just helped my mate change a gear box on his 1999 ford ka well when the engines off it will go into any gear, but start it up put your foot on the clutch and it wount engage any gears plus clutch pedal dosent feel very hard, have bleed it tho.

any advice would be great.

 

Did you change the clutch or just the box? Give it another go at bleeding, why was the gearbox changed because it wouldn't go into gear?

 

its the clutch or slave cylinder

 

my mate said his gearbox was knackered so replaced it with another gearbox off a ka and put a new clutch in it. i read up some where that we might of put clutch on wrong way round?? dont know if that was true of it its the first time ive helped change a gearbox. could we have lined up the clutch wrong also??

 

If you lined the clutch up wrong the gearbox wouldn't be on there now. In this case, i'd say slave cylinder, seeing as you say it has a light pedal.

 

Don't forget different clutch brands have different resistance from the pressure plate springs. So the new clutch may be softer.

But saying that, if u can't select gears with engine on I would agree with others and say bleeding- air in system

Matt

 

thank you all for your advice, i will try bleeding the system again i thought i had done it enough. lol if not then back to square one.

 

hi all, ive tried bleeding the clutch today, theres loads of air in it and i carnt seem to get rid of it, starting to pull my hair out!! cars doing my head in now.!!!

 

What method are you trying to bleed the clutch? A one man bleed kit?

Also, where are u based?

Matt

 

hi yeah im using one man bleed kit, also been told to try reverse bleeding, bleeding it from the slave cylinder to master cylinder but that still not worked, im based in caythorpe near grantham lincs ive got a machanic coming out to look at it today to try and see if he can have a go, if not then its for the high jump!!!!! need my garage back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

If it's one of those vacuum ones it's always going to draw air in around the nipple so it will never be free of air.

 

i habe found the culpret of the problem, there's a small pipe on the master cyclinder resivour that leads to the clutch and it was the clutch fluid so was just drawing in air!! point to make tho is that it is also just level with the max level point on the resivour.

a big thank you to all that have offered advice to me and helped me along the way. you have been all so helpful thank you fellow forders!!!!