Help!! Bad clutch or tranny?!?!

[zimekone]

I posted this on another forum but got no replies, maybe someone here can help me.

How can I tell if my clutch went bad or if its my tranny? The problem came on suddenly. I was driving home and the engine started to sound rough and I lost engine power. Then 3rd wouldn't catch, then 1st, then 2nd and I barely got home before I couldn't shift at all. Now its sitting in my driveway stuck in 2nd. I can pull if out of 2nd if I really try but now its grinds/makes a clicking noise in neutral and sometimes will lurch foward and stall. If I hold the clutch down the engine seems to run fine.What happened? My car was running fine just hours before this happened. This all happened within a matter of 5 or 6 blocks. By the way its a 1990 Acura Legend with a manual transmission. Any feed back would be appericiated.
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Im not an expert at all but from what Ive read and what other people have told me I think I've narrowed down the possiblities. I think I either have a damaged input gear bearing or a damaged clutch release bearing/fork. Does this sound right to anyone? Does anyone know how I could test this without pulling the engine or transaxle? If one of these is the problem do u think its worth fixing? Oh and someone also told me it could be the hydralics. If anybody could give me some feedback I would really appericate it.

[mjgjr72]

you will have to pull the tranny to be sure, i have seen the springs in the clutch plates and fingers on the pressure plate come apart and cause the clutch to hang up. if the car is running and in neatral foot off clutch pedal and car lurches forward then the clutch assembly is plobably damaged. you can pull the plug on the side of the tranny and drain the fluid into a clean container and look for metal peices in the fluid or on the magnet on the end of the drain plug to see if something let go in the trans but i don't think so. the clutch kit from napa comes with a new friction disk, pessure plate, throwout bearing, input shaft guide bushing and disk alignment tool and labor time in 5-6 hours if the trans is bad you can get a used one from a junk yard. so if the car is in decent shape it would be worth fixing.

[jimmymc]

I would check the transmission lubricate...my guess it's empty.

jimmymc

[corolla99]

Originally Posted by jimmymc

I would check the transmission lubricate...my guess it's empty.

jimmymc

ya check the simple stuff first no tranny fluid does so much for your gears and can make your tranny seem shot so id do this before riping shit apart cau my friend had a tranny leak and his gears grabed wicked shitty he lost power and crap but it didnt get low enough to the point of what your talking about but first few things you described did so that would be my guess

[zimekone]

I just want to thank everyone for theyre input so far, and anyone with anything to add is thanked in advanced.