car wont shift into first, hard shift with rest of gears

[phreaknature]

HELP!! I've been researching this for the past hour and I'm finding mixed answers to incomplete questions.

Here's the full rundown.

New master cylindar and slave cylindar almost a year old. Yesterday the car drove and shifted fine, though first gear will sometimes give me trouble and i have to press on the clutch more than once to have it shift into first all the way. Today when I left the mall (meaning it drove fine on the way there) I couldn't get the damn thing into first even with the method I usually use. I had to slam it into first. Driving back home scared the crap out of me because it became harder to shift into any gear, and when I was about 4 blocks from my apartment, I had to shift from neutral to 2nd gear, totally skipping first cause when I tried to go into first, all I got was major resistance and the sound like my gears were grinding. Clutch was placed ALL the way down when I was trying for first, and that was my result. Pure resistance and the grinding of gears sound. From the four blocks to my house, I had trouble shifting up AND down, but I was lucky enough to park it at my place. When the car is off, I can shift to first easily. On, can't do it at all. Had my friend press the clutch while i was taking a peek underneath and saw the slave move as its supposed to. Checked the master and found that my fluid had gone black. Getting the car into reverse was difficult when the car was on, as I had to slam that too and actually heard it grind for a sec.

Okay so now that I've told you EVERYTHING about my problems, what can you guys conclude as to the problem of my 1990 240sx hatch? Is my first step to bleed the clutch? Or do i skip that because it won't do a thing and focus on getting a new pressure place and to bearing?

this is my DD guys and beside my gf, who's car is out of commision as well, i don't have anyone else here in san jose to ask for help!

[Poyzinous]

Wow. Interesting situation. get it to a shop, cuz it could be synchro's are worn out and you'll need a new transmission, or it could just be your pressure plate/bearing. If you recently replaced both master and slave cylinders, double check your work.

[joe603]

I also posted a link in the 240sx forum.

[phreaknature]

i hadn't realized i was posting in the G-Series area of the forums, i think it was due to my doing a mass search on the problem and writing one up while in this zone. reposted it last night in the 240 section