# New clutch problems **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [February 11, 2014, 7:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-clutch-problems/83666 "2014-02-11T07:16:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cdaquila](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cdaquila/32/18089_2.png) [@cdaquila](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cdaquila)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 7:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-clutch-problems/83666/1 "2014-02-11T07:16:46Z")
This discussion was created from comments split from: [Your Credentials Please](https://community.cartalk.com/discussion/2238011/your-credentials-please/). ---
**Author:** ![Sarahs\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@Sarahs\_Mom](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Sarahs_Mom)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-clutch-problems/83666/2 "2014-02-06T23:00:35Z")
Help! I am a lost. I had a friend of a friend install a new clutch for me. (That was my first mistake). He did it in his garage and everything seemed fine. Then about 2 weeks later I noticed that when I pushed in the clutch to shift gears it would come out of gear fine but, did not want to go into gear without a wrestling match between me and the gear shift. It didn’t grind or make any noise it just refused to go into gear like I was pushing and some invisible wall had dropped preventing it from going back into gear. It doesn’t always do it. I have noticed no pattern in when it does it. Sometimes Ive been driving a while and it starts, other times I just started the car and within minutes of driving down the road it starts refusing to shift back into gear. I have noticed when It gets really bad I hear and feel this thumping or banging when I push the clutch in. When I pump the clutch a few times, sometimes this works to get it back into gear. At times it is sooo hard to put back into gear that I have had to use both hands on the clutch to force it into gear.? I have discussed this with some people they think it is my “pressure plate” (what ever that is). I do know that when the guy put the new clutch in he was not able to polish something down? The new clutch was installed about may 2012. Help!!! I am a single mother at a new job just coming off 2 years of unemployment so I need the cheapest solution. Could it be I simply need to fill my transmission fluid or something simple like that\> Thanks for your help ---
**Author:** ![cdaquila](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cdaquila/32/18089_2.png) [@cdaquila](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cdaquila)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 7:17am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-clutch-problems/83666/3 "2014-02-11T07:17:43Z")
@Sarahs Mom, it would likely help the other users to know about your car, like its make, model, and year, too. ---
**Author:** ![circuitsmith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/circuitsmith/32/40376_2.png) [@circuitsmith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/circuitsmith)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 7:26am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-clutch-problems/83666/4 "2014-02-11T07:26:00Z")
Sounds like a bad master cylinder to me.