Clunk!

[Juuls]

Symptoms:
Hard to engage van into gear. Having to force and push hard to engage. Clunking/grinding noises and lots of shuddering before going into a gear. Reverse gear particularly bad.
EEEK...clutch problem or what?

[Jim San]

Is it all of a sudden or has it been getting increasingly worse over time.

[Juuls]

Suddenly. Fine one minute. Got back in van and.....problem!

[jas915]

i had a problem like this, turned out to be the small roller bearing that the input shaft goes into which is in the flywheel. thats on a diesel. so maybe not whats wrong with yours

[Juuls]

1.9 petrol. Slave cylinder replaced last year and had new clutch put in when we had recon engine fitted.

[tforturton]

See the current thread on the Syncro pages - One month in Iceland in a Syncro - for another possible cause. Worn gear selector ring.

[clift_d]

The post you need is here.

[Juuls]

Brilliant. Thanks guys. Duly noted.

[clift_d]

Don't only look at the gear selector lever. There's also a joint about halfway down the gear selector shaft that runs from the gear lever at the front of the van which can start to slip.

[multisi]

Clutch operating shaft may have one of its forks come away from the shaft.

[Aidan]

Can you get the gears ok with the engine off ?
If so generally it's an input issue, that's spigot bearing, clutch slave cylinder, release bearing, fork, clutch

also 4 or 5 speed ?

problems only 1st and reverse or all gears ?