Hello everyone.
I was on my way home from work yesterday in my 1984 BMW 325e, and I was about to turn onto a side road. I had to stop to let a few cars pass, but then as I put on the gas and let out the clutch, the car just revved--it acted like the clutch was still pushed all the way in.
The first suggestion I got was that I was leaking clutch fluid, which would explain the trail of an oily substance behind my car. But then I was told that no fluid would mean that the clutch would be unable to disengage the transmission, which was not the problem I was having. My problem was the other way around--it would not engage the transmission.
Then someone suggested that my master clutch cylinder may be stuck in, but I wanted to ask for other opinions. Does anyone have any idea what might have happened, and how to fix it?
Thanks.
Der Strom
I was on my way home from work yesterday in my 1984 BMW 325e, and I was about to turn onto a side road. I had to stop to let a few cars pass, but then as I put on the gas and let out the clutch, the car just revved--it acted like the clutch was still pushed all the way in.
The first suggestion I got was that I was leaking clutch fluid, which would explain the trail of an oily substance behind my car. But then I was told that no fluid would mean that the clutch would be unable to disengage the transmission, which was not the problem I was having. My problem was the other way around--it would not engage the transmission.
Then someone suggested that my master clutch cylinder may be stuck in, but I wanted to ask for other opinions. Does anyone have any idea what might have happened, and how to fix it?
Thanks.
Der Strom