So my girlfriend was driving my 94 jeep cherokee the other day. 4.0L 5speed manual. She supposedly drove it up a steep hill in 4th gear and smoke started coming up from the tranny. Now today when I try to drive it, it's not working near correctly. When I start it and try to get it to go forward from first gear, it won't go, won't move an inch unless I rev the engine really high then it slowly inches forward and the other gears take over. But it seems like all of the gears, are taking way to much gas to get the jeep to move. Any ideas of what she did to it? It also feels a lot easier to put it into gear. Like almost no resistance just slides in. (Which it didn't before) Did she blow my clutch out? Prepared for the worst but still hoping for the best. Somebody bring me some good news!!! Thanks

 

She burned out the clutch.

Replace clutch, throw out bearing, pressure plate, and resurface the flywheel.

Don't buy cheap parts or get it done at a cheap place.

 

I have to agree. Time for a clutch job. It sounds like she burned it up.