1974CJ5 Posted June 16, 2011 Posted June 16, 2011 3 times on my way home yesterday (25 mile trip) my shift lever would refuse to into any gear after the transmission reached neutral. After pushing attempting to shift to whatever gear I wanted several times, it would finally shift and would be fine for several miles, then it would happen again. I think the clutch is releasing, because there is no grinding, and I rode with my foot on the clutch down a 3/4 mile hill trying to shift out of neutral and into any other gear, and it finally went into 2nd (after I had slowed down quite a bit.) Where should I start? I was kinda thinking syncros, but I am pretty tranny challenged. BTW: Truck is a 87 MJ 2.5 litre 2wd 4speed.
1974CJ5 Posted June 17, 2011 Author Posted June 17, 2011 (I will check both but...) Do you mean clutch fluid (brake fluid if I'm not mistaken), or gear oil level in the trans?
mjtjnj Posted June 17, 2011 Posted June 17, 2011 Clutch fluid. If the level is OK, your clutch disc may be worn.
1974CJ5 Posted June 17, 2011 Author Posted June 17, 2011 Certainly hope its the fluid, because the clutch only has about 2000 miles on it.
JeepcoMJ Posted June 17, 2011 Posted June 17, 2011 your slave cylinder is failing somehow or another.
1974CJ5 Posted June 20, 2011 Author Posted June 20, 2011 Good call. The clutch master cylinder was empty, I had so convinced myself this wasn't the issue that I didn't even check originally...lol! So the truck hasn't had any shifting problems since I filled it up. Now however it seems I have a really slow leak that runs down on to the harness for the fuse box. So now I have all kinds of stuff that intermittently doesn't work in the truck. Awesome! :headpop:
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