1st gear is grinding

[mbmbmb23]

You're never gonna be able to shift thru all the gears with the clutch depressed...going 70mph.....because if you were rolling at 70mph...with the clutch depressed and in first gear position........and you let off the clutch....your tranny would be focked...and so would everyone behind you on the highway as your tires would lock up. If I were you I'd check the fluid level in your hydraulic clutch lines. If I remember correctly, certain gears are harder to get into when your fluid level gets pretty low (happend to me with 1st and reverse when my clutch MC went bad and was leaking). My advice, dont use 1st gear right now.......downshift to 2nd..and if you have to stop the car...go from 2nd to neutral and use the brakes...then start off in 2nd by revving way up to get going. If you clutch MC is going to leak, it'll be leaking inside your car behind the clutch pedal. If the lines leak, they'll probably be leaking from the rubber lines under the car that go from the bleeder box to the clutch slave cylinder. Or..it could be the slave cylinder leaking. You'll need to jack the car up to check these lines...the slave cylinder is bolted to the passenger side of your tranny bell housing.





-m