ManBearPig
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2016 GTPP 26k miles. Basic bolt-on car.
The car will currently not go into any gear and the clutch will not disengage hardly at all. Pedal currently feels normal and with the engine off, shifter "feels" normal going into all gears.
This happened driving home last night. I was going for a WOT 2-3 shift and it wouldn’t go into 3rd. I've read about people being "locked out" of 3rd with high RPM shifting but I have never experienced it. At first I thought that's what happened, but then realized I couldn’t get it into any gear. I also then realized the pedal was stuck about halfway down. I was able to pull the pedal back up and it stayed there and now "feels" normal, but doesn’t do much of anything. I managed to make it home last night only shifting a few times without the clutch. I was lucky I never had to stop, because there's no way I could've taken off again.
For additional context, something similar happened about 2 years ago when the car had 5k miles. Last time, I pulled the pedal back up and it worked fine. I still took it in and convinced Ford to replace the master cylinder even though it was not exhibiting any symptoms at the time.
My first thought would be there is something up with the hydraulics. Either a bad master or slave, or air somehow got into the system.
On the other hand, maybe something exploded in there. I was not given any warning, but I was driving like an asshole right before this happened. I usually don’t beat on the car but I made a couple WOT pulls through gears 2-4 last night. The air was nice and cool and the car was running really well so I had a bit of fun. That may or may not be coincidental.
If I could get to the slave cylinder I'd try to bleed the system, but I know sometimes that doesn’t work very well anyway. I'm not familiar with how to do it by pulling a vacuum, but I'm guessing that's what will need to be done. I also am unsure how that would work with the shared reservoir between the clutch and brakes.
My thinking is that I should probably try to bleed the system first then go from there before pulling the trans.
Thoughts?
The car will currently not go into any gear and the clutch will not disengage hardly at all. Pedal currently feels normal and with the engine off, shifter "feels" normal going into all gears.
This happened driving home last night. I was going for a WOT 2-3 shift and it wouldn’t go into 3rd. I've read about people being "locked out" of 3rd with high RPM shifting but I have never experienced it. At first I thought that's what happened, but then realized I couldn’t get it into any gear. I also then realized the pedal was stuck about halfway down. I was able to pull the pedal back up and it stayed there and now "feels" normal, but doesn’t do much of anything. I managed to make it home last night only shifting a few times without the clutch. I was lucky I never had to stop, because there's no way I could've taken off again.
For additional context, something similar happened about 2 years ago when the car had 5k miles. Last time, I pulled the pedal back up and it worked fine. I still took it in and convinced Ford to replace the master cylinder even though it was not exhibiting any symptoms at the time.
My first thought would be there is something up with the hydraulics. Either a bad master or slave, or air somehow got into the system.
On the other hand, maybe something exploded in there. I was not given any warning, but I was driving like an asshole right before this happened. I usually don’t beat on the car but I made a couple WOT pulls through gears 2-4 last night. The air was nice and cool and the car was running really well so I had a bit of fun. That may or may not be coincidental.
If I could get to the slave cylinder I'd try to bleed the system, but I know sometimes that doesn’t work very well anyway. I'm not familiar with how to do it by pulling a vacuum, but I'm guessing that's what will need to be done. I also am unsure how that would work with the shared reservoir between the clutch and brakes.
My thinking is that I should probably try to bleed the system first then go from there before pulling the trans.
Thoughts?
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