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Anyone ever have a bent clutch fork?

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Old 01-15-2004, 10:00 AM
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Default Anyone ever have a bent clutch fork?

That might be what is causing my odd problem with my clutch. I want to hear your stories.

My car won't go into gear oftentimes when started up and the car is cold. I can, however, put the car in a forward gear (not reverse though), and start the car up. Then the car will creep while in gear with the clutch pedal fully pressed. The engagement point for the clutch is seemingly below the bottom of the floorboard, although I can usually shift into a higher gear once the car is moving if I rev match and am patient enough to push it into gear. As everything warms up over 5 minutes or so, the clutch engagement point moves up a little higher away from the floor and eventually I can drive the car normally, although at best there might be a half inch of travel between the floor and the clutch engagement point. Then it all starts over again if the car sits long enough to cool off.
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Symptoms?
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Re-read; I edited my post to include them.
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Sounds like you should try bleeding the clutch.
Old 01-15-2004, 10:13 AM
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Default If it was air in the clutch fluid, I'd be able to pump the pedal up...

...and I've only been able to do that 3 or 4 times out of the 50 or so I've tried, so I suspect the times I thought it worked when I pumped the pedal (like 50+ pumps at a time), it was simply the heat getting into the metal of the clutch fork).
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Default Incorrect, Drew is right

I'm going down to the shop that replaced the slave cyclinder to pick up a car that goes into gear now.

Your symtom desc. is 100% what mine is.
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Default We have the sam nightmere

Now I'm really worried
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Default Well, if they have the tranny out for any reason, tell them to check the clutch fork...

...they might have to have a known good one to compare it too though to know for sure if the one in the car is good.
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I hope it dosen't come to that


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