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[scottambrose]

Sometimes my gears feel stiff say for example I get in car in morning depress clutch and then it wont go into 1st or reverse then if I try 3rd then 1st its  any ideas

[Murph]

Drain the gearbox and then top up with fresh oil - not too expensive from VX.

That should sort you out.

[scottambrose]

Is that a fairly easy job

[Murph]

It's not too bad a job, just be careful cos old gear oil stinks!

[2woody]

it's ATF, don't forget.

[albitz]

In a manual ? 

[Andy B]

In a manual ? 

nothing unusual about ATF in a manual 'box 

[albitz]

Unheard of when I used to drive manual cars,but that was just after they started fitting steering wheels instead of a lever.

[jibberwobble]

My 2.5 used to do this, it got slowly worse and then the clanking rattling noise started. It would sound like bag of nuts n bolts when the clutch was disengaged so I always assumed it was a flywheel/clutch issue and something was coming loose or breaking. Never got round to looking into it as the car had other reasons why I wasn't going to be spending too long trying to fix it.

[Kevin Wood]

Could also be the clutch dragging slightly due to contamination or a poor seal in the hydraulic system. Worth changing the gear oil first though.

[jibberwobble]

My clutch was definately dragging.

[scottambrose]

the clutch feels fine its almost like the linkage is stiff . to change the oil do i just undo the plug on the side and then refil until it dribbles out

[markrnorton]

fresh gearbox oil can make the world of difference. But as stated the old stuff does stink and can stain driveways badly

[JamesV6CDX]

I would be tempted to change the gear oil (Vx only!!) and reverse bleed the hydraulics (easy peasy job)