No drive in any gear

[Skywalker80]

Right so after a few months sleep in the garage, I decided to tax and put my mk2 (8v gti) back on the road today. Started first time after about 3 months of no use, but then everything went bad.
Put it in reverse and car wouldn't move, put it in forward gears and still wouldnt move. Clutch pedal feels like it used to I think, and possibly comes up slower but not 100%. I can even put it in a forward gear and release the clutch fully and nothing happens, no stall or anything.

In the 3 or so months it's been off the road in my garage, the only work I've done is replace all shocks and springs, have done nothing with the gearbox, driveshafts or clutch. All were working fine when the car was put away.

Any ideas what this could be? I had another gearbox fitted last year (020) but used my existing clutch as it'd only done about 15k and was in good shape. I put a second hand driveshaft on the near side as I had a bad cv joint on the old one, this was when the gearbox was changed. There was at times a slight whine coming from either gearbox or driveshaft but not sure which was to blame. Could this be the problem?
Or could it be the clutch not engaging properly? Or something simple like a stretched clutch cable?

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers

[jezza16v]

Are you sure its going into gear, maybe the linkage is knackered. Try putting into gear directly via the rod on the gearbox. Also, if you left the car stored with the handbrake on the rear brakes could be seized on solid, mind you the car would still jump a bit or stall if you had any drive. The clutch centre plate might be seized on the spline (unlikely though). Did you not have even a hint of drive when you first started the car?

[VW BUSH]

As said check it is actually selecting a gear.
If the clutch cable or pedal is floppy you might be stuck half way.
Long shot but is the diff ok/noisy?

[Waspy]

This happened to me once. One of the linkages had departed...

[Skywalker80]

Cheers for the replies guys. I have checked over a few things yesterday and the pedal seems fine, so does the cable. It's a manual cable too, so not the self adjusting one.
I can engage all gears with the engine running and turned off from the gear stick and also from the selector rods on the gearbox.

When I started it on sunday it wouldn't move an inch, but there was a slight spinning noise which I can only describe as like a Kazoo?
I had wondered about the clutch pressure plate welding itself to the flywheel, but also thought about the cv joints. I had a quick look under the car after work last night and the near side cv boot has grease around where it meets the shaft and there is also some grease around the boot. The boot also looks very twisted, so I'm wondering if the shaft has become disconnected to the joint?
Unfortunately, I have only space to work on my drive, I don't have much space in my garage so can't really do much after work this week. The weekend is the only time I'll have to work on it.
But looks like i'll be changing the driveshaft anyway, luckily I have another in my garage.

Am I right in thinking if one CV joint has failed then there wont be any drive at all?

[sparkplug]

sounds like the cv joint hasn't been pushed in correctly , or broken

[VW BUSH]

One shaft not connected will defo give you no drive

[Skywalker80]

Cheers for all the responses guys. Took the near side drive shaft off on Saturday and could see there was a major issue with the joint straight away.
The shaft had come out of the cb joint! Luckily I had a spare complete driveshaft in the garage, so that went on and I'm moving again.

[hardmonkeys]

Any idea how it happened?? I assume it drove in the garage before you laid up fine? Strange one

[Skywalker80]

Yeah it went into the garage fine last year. The only thing I can think of is when I changed my suspension a couple of months back I could've  caught the leg on the cv joint and damaged it somehow.