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Originally Posted by jwade944
Try raising the rear, push the clutch (assuming the clutch works), put it in gear, turn the rear wheels by hand with the clutch still in. That will rule out the transaxle and clutch. My vote is that the issue is something locking the flywheel in the bell housing.
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okay but the car rolls alright in neutral so should turn over in neutral too?
I noticed the clearance between the front face (engine side) of the flywheel and block/oil pan is very little, even seems to just barely touch the pan gasket in one corner, not saying it hits, just wondering if that's "normal". There's no fore/aft play in it (little pry bar and gentle prying of the flywheel foreword/backward and there is no movement (which there shouldn't be I wouldn't think)
I'm also still thinking there's something jamming the flywheel. There are plastic bits from the position/speed sensor harness connector laying around the inspection hole but I highly doubt a hunk of plastic would hold up the works even if it could get to someplace to jam, but we'll see. If so, it would only be one way I'd think. Those mangled connections were one of the first things I stumbled on, someone was very ham-fisted. I have since reconnected them, despite broken bits, they still grab okay, will replace at least the harness down the road.
I doubt the sensor itself would jam it? Research says the position sensor reads a set screw on the flywheel but the sensors themselves to not look like they have ever been disturbed.
Oh, i should mention the PO had replaced the slave cylinder, given his apparent ham-fisted approach, maybe he did leave something lurking in the moving bits.
I will look into the methods for clutch replacement as that will give me all the access I'd need, if it comes to that, I wish that scope would get here!