'91, 5-speed won't engage gears...

Hello all. This is my first post (I'm new)...

I know VERY little about anything automotive, and have no help.

My '91, 4x4, 5-speed will allow me to start it by pressing the clutch in, and I have axcess to the gears... but when I remove my foot from the clutch it's as if it's still in neutral... please help...

15 views other then mine, and no advice? :frown:

you may need to bleed the clutch. i would start there. did the clutch work before? or is this something that just started happening?

id start with this manual though.. most of the info should apply to your truck as well.

http://personal.utulsa.edu/~nathan-buchanan/93fsm/

hope that helps you

JT

Thanks for the info...

for a WHILE, when I drove it it would rev the RPMS up really high when i shifted through the gears and then settle down... then this happened :banghead:

1. check the fluid in the clutch slave cylinder. (next to your master cylinder) if its low fill it back up and pump the clutch a bunch of times and try to drive the truck really slow to see if it starts to engage. before you drive it have someone else around an have them check and see if the fluid is spraying or leaking out from anywhere while your pumping the clutch right after you have filled it up. you could have a blown line.
2. your clutch could just be blown.
3. your tranny could be done.

Your tranny isn't done and I doubt you need fluid, if you needed fluid you would be able to engage it into gear but not get it out, you have the opposite problem.

The slave cylinder is down on the tranny underneath the car the Clutch Master cylinder is on the firewall next to the Brake Master cylinder.

I would bet your clutch is shot, especially based on the high revs you talked about when shifting, that's because your clutch plate is so worn it doesn't have enough friction to grab tight and slips, hence the high RPM's. When a clucth disk gets really shot you can sit in 1st gear with the pedal out and not stall because it can't even grab at an idle speed.

You need a clutch and you'll be good. Don't worry though, if you are a good stick driver, that new clutch will last you 150K.

i meant to say clutch master, my bad. even though it is possible that its a bad clutch mine did the same thing. once i filled it up, it was fine. i was tripped out and thought my clutch was done.

If you can put it in gear and it still acts like it's in neutral then it needs a new clutch like mmcpeck said. If it just needed fluid you wouldn't be able to get it in gear and if you did it would have to be moving for the motor to be running.