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For reference, I drive a 1969 Opel GT with a four-speed manual transmission.
As I exited a freeway offramp last night, I come to a stoplight and put it in neutral.
As I try to put it back into first gear when the light turns green, it won't go, and the harder I push the stick in to the first gear position, the more the car sounds like it's going to stall out. Finally, I just give it a hard shove in to first and it stalls out completely. Luckily, there was almost no traffic, and the guys behind me were able to just go around.
I'm able to start it up again, but the same problem occurs; when I try to put it in to first, it won't go and begins to stall as I press the stick harder.
Again, I stall out, but this time, it won't start up again.
So I had it towed to my house. This morning, I tried to start it up, but with no luck. I gave it a bit of gas, though, and it started when I did that.
If I let it idle too long, though, it'd just stall out again, and the same thing kept happening whenever I tried to put it in to gear.
There was a very loud clacking sound involved in all this that started just as I exited the freeway, and every time I try to start the car, it continues to make a loud, repeating clacking sound that speeds up as I give the car gas and slows down as it begins to idle and stall.
Does anyone have any idea what this means?
Thank you very much.
As I exited a freeway offramp last night, I come to a stoplight and put it in neutral.
As I try to put it back into first gear when the light turns green, it won't go, and the harder I push the stick in to the first gear position, the more the car sounds like it's going to stall out. Finally, I just give it a hard shove in to first and it stalls out completely. Luckily, there was almost no traffic, and the guys behind me were able to just go around.
I'm able to start it up again, but the same problem occurs; when I try to put it in to first, it won't go and begins to stall as I press the stick harder.
Again, I stall out, but this time, it won't start up again.
So I had it towed to my house. This morning, I tried to start it up, but with no luck. I gave it a bit of gas, though, and it started when I did that.
If I let it idle too long, though, it'd just stall out again, and the same thing kept happening whenever I tried to put it in to gear.
There was a very loud clacking sound involved in all this that started just as I exited the freeway, and every time I try to start the car, it continues to make a loud, repeating clacking sound that speeds up as I give the car gas and slows down as it begins to idle and stall.
Does anyone have any idea what this means?
Thank you very much.