Hi all, need some ideas, my son's R50 starting doing this last week. 2006 R50, manual trans.

With the engine running the car will not go in gear. With the engine off, no problems.

I've checked and bled the hydraulics, no leaks. The fluid was the color of coffee. All clear now.

When you engage the clutch pedal it makes a slight scraping noise. I'll attach a video. I'm not sure the sound comes through in the video.

 

 

I was thinking about this some more and one possibility is that the clutch fork is bent. Not sure if you can diagnose this without dropping the gearbox. The slave cylinder hole does give you a view on a small part of the fork

 

Mine did the same thing. It was an issue with the clutch assembly. For some reason the new LUK brand clutch had decided it would not engage. (It was a few months old and had worked). I swapped the clutch for a Valeo brand and no more issues. You can read more about it here. https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...-ideas-13.html

Issue stars around post #304 and goes on to #340

 

Appreciate you for the replies, sirs.

If anyone else had some experience with this I’d be interested to here about it

 

going to read through this

 

thats was very helpful. thank you. your situation sounds very much like mine. looks like im in for a new clutch...

 

Glad it was helpful!