My car has been down for a few months, I finally come accross with some spare money to get to fix. I posted a thread before and I didn't get a clear answer, so i decided to post one more and describe in better detail just to make sure.

When my car is idling, I can shift just fine. Push in 1st or reverse, no problem. The problem comes down to shifting with rpm higer than 3K. After I slammed the clutch pedal,in high rpm,I can't not promtly shift. I can't push in gears. After 1 or 2 seconds, after the rpm goes down a little,I can push it in but with extra strenght. And I will hear a metal sound. If I continue to perform the shift like this, I will get a strange smell from the engine when I stop the car.

Any ideas about this? Will replace the clutch with ECS stage 1 clutch solve the problem, or it could be something else??

 

sounds like your tranny has issues. synchro is bad.

 

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defo sounds like the tranny has some serious issues.

 

Agree. They suck on the 02J (fwd tranny). If its not that, its the shift fork. They suck, but they are in tons of VW's so they are rather cheap if they just want to swap them.

 

I have no knowledge about the tranny. So, it has nothing to do with the clutch??
What should I do here?

 

Its not the cltuch. The syncros are involved with shifting and sometimes go bad. The shift fork could be the problem, but that usually doesnt happen unless you are using a strongpressure plateand shifting around 8k

 

Have you tried double-clutching at the higher RPM's to see if it would then go into gear? This would prove/disprove the synchros as the culprit. Basically you rev up to 4,000rpm, disengage the clutch, shift into nuetral, engage the clutch, disengage the clutch and shift into the next gear while trying to match up the RPM's with what the car is going to expect at that speed, likely 3,000-3,200rpm. (These are arbitrary numbers used for example purposes only) You can then engage the clutch and continue accelerating; this sounds like a lot to do but in reality it can be done in the matter of a second or two and is basically how you shift a transmission without synchros, or in this case one with potentially bad/worn ones.

 

Good thing I havenĀ“t order the clutch yet. How much am I looking for here. Would that shirek my pocket by huge?[&:]