Hello crew,

This past Monday I go to start my 1991 manual DX, and as I put the clutch down to the floor some sudden pressure is released somewhere along the clutch to transmission line. The car turns over fine, but the car won't go into gear and my clutch pedal is super loose now.

I get under the hood and screw around a bit. The release arm/shaft seems to have plenty of pressure and there had been no shifting issues prior to this. I'm caught between two explanations and would like some input:

A. The release fork spring connecting the release arm and throwout bearing snapped. I question this because then wouldn't the release arm have zero pressure?

B. The clutch cable suddenly gave and needs to be replaced. I'm suspect of this however because from reading prior threads it seems like this is more of a prolonged problem that gets worse over time. I will say however that I live in the sticks of Vermont and they happily dump salt everywhere causing other parts of my car to give out suddenly. Can the cable just go out like that?

If I'm totally off, throw me some suggestions. As always, thanks in advance.

 

It looks like in either case, you're going to have to split the engine and transmission.