Gear lever getting stuck / hard to move

[volvic]

Hi folks!
Weird one this, it happened the same day the poly dogbone was changed for a standard one, but went away after a spirited drive. But now it's back...

Quite often when coming to a stop 1st or 2nd gear becomes hard to move to neutral. with some force it will move or if i move forward slightly it becomes easy to shift. sometimes reverse is hard to select, but again if i move forward very slightly selecting reverse is fine.

Also when coming to a stop, about 2-5 feet of coming to a stop i can feel like a shift of weight moving forwards (can hear it too), like something is loose and rocks forwards.

Last but not least, sometimes when in 1st, i can have the clutch pedal all the way down but the car still lurches forward, almost as if the biting point has moved.
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now that last one sounds like the clutch giving up, but it flies in 3rd from 20mph at full throttle, there isn't any slip at all bar 6th gear when the speed is too slow. (even then its not really slipping, more like juddering)
please tell me it's not the gearbox

car is fr+ tdi

 

[volvic]

in my head i think the problem is that the clutch isn't bolted up to the gearbox properly... but changing the dogbone mount wouldn't cause this would it?

 

[volvic]

in my head i think the problem is that the clutch isn't bolted up to the gearbox properly...

hence why a spirited drive *knocked* it back into place....

my mind is going ape

 

[Muttley]

Wild guess, but the clutch not disengaging properly will cause something like this.

When the car is moving the dog clutches in the gearbox slip into and out of engagement more easily (hence you don't notice it on the higher gear changes) but when the car is stationary the torque applied to the gears makes it harder to disengage or engage 1st/reverse.

 

[wayne lcr]

defo the clutch and have you add it done or the gearbox out?

 

[volvic]

The clutch and gearbox have never been removed while I've had it some two years now. The car has a hybrid and custom map if it makes any difference.