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I have 1988 Festiva with a manual 5 speed. It does the most curious thing. When it works, it works great. No slippage or lag or any other complaints. However,you can be driving down the road and it will just stop pulling. Just like it went into netural. Speed doesn't matter. There honestly seems to be no outside cotributing factor. Here is where it gets above my skill level. When it fails the speedo will be registering at say 15mph. Also, with the car running and the clutch out, I can shift through the first 3 gears. Not 4th or 5th and i could grind reverse in but choose not to. One time it failed and I bounced the car up and down a few times by standing on the bumper. It started working again. Last time it failed I jacked up the pasenger side and tried spinning the wheel. it would spin in netural and in gear. I jacked up the drivers side. It would spin in netural but not in gear. So i went back to the passenger side and tried it again. It would now not spin in gear and I could drive it again. The fluid was changed after the first time it failed about a month ago. There was particles in the fluid. The car is unreliable and I'm out of ideas. Any Thoughts?
I have 1988 Festiva with a manual 5 speed. It does the most curious thing. When it works, it works great. No slippage or lag or any other complaints. However,you can be driving down the road and it will just stop pulling. Just like it went into netural. Speed doesn't matter. There honestly seems to be no outside cotributing factor. Here is where it gets above my skill level. When it fails the speedo will be registering at say 15mph. Also, with the car running and the clutch out, I can shift through the first 3 gears. Not 4th or 5th and i could grind reverse in but choose not to. One time it failed and I bounced the car up and down a few times by standing on the bumper. It started working again. Last time it failed I jacked up the pasenger side and tried spinning the wheel. it would spin in netural and in gear. I jacked up the drivers side. It would spin in netural but not in gear. So i went back to the passenger side and tried it again. It would now not spin in gear and I could drive it again. The fluid was changed after the first time it failed about a month ago. There was particles in the fluid. The car is unreliable and I'm out of ideas. Any Thoughts?
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