I have a 1990 civic stock- car starts, I can shift into all gears without using clutch rpm's go up and speedo goes up. No grinding gears. Shift linkage, clutch? any ideas help please.

 

time for a clutch

 

Only other thing I could think of is maybe a bad cv joint?

 

It would definatly make some bad bad grinding if the CV went out.

 

Well, I saw one on a late model nissan that just went out and the car wouldn't move.. then again the car was in a wreck a week before, so i'm sure it fucked it up.

I'll just submit and agree with your clutch post.

Was the thing slipping before hand? Were u able to shift gears without pushing in the clutch pedal?

 

No slipping all off a sudden car wont move. Could it be a linkage, just an idea

 

if it feels like its going into gear, its not the linkage. Reguardless you are going to have to crawl underneith your car and diagnose the issue, 99% chance the transmission is going to come out.

 

what axles did you use? I used 95 ex axles on a ef before and the wheels would not turn after I thighten the axles nut. I had to change back to the ef axles. 98ctr

 

might be the clutch. Well since you have a 90 civic, try popping the hood and tightening the clutch cable, tighten it a few turns and try to move it. If it doesn't move tighten it some more. If it doesn't after that, tighten it some more. If it doesn't after that say ---- it and tighten it all the way. If then it finally moves, congratulations you have no clutch and you're running metal to metal (yep yep happened to me).

 

uh, you can shift gears without the clutch in, just have to rev match it and give the synchros hell...hehe.