I have a 92 Plymouth Laser AWD 5 speed. There have been a few problems with it. The 1 problem is the clutch it won’t go into 5th and R without a lot of work. The clutch it's self is not all that old and it has new linkage, and now on the other day it was in what should have been N and when i tried to start it started moving and died like i was trying to start it in 1st. And the 2nd problem started right after that i can turn the key to start but it does nothing, idk would that have anything to do with the first problem? (sorry if I sound stupid I am not the best with cars that’s why I came here to ask)

 

Sounds like your clutch and tranny are done.

 

Sounds like the clutch took the tranny with it to me... lol

 

Hmm really i mean other then 5th and R it was driving fine till i parked it the other day now it won't start what would have made it toatly go after i parked it?

 

Shifter cable?

 

this doesnt sound like a clutch problem at all to me, you seem to have no slipping or anything and most other gears are fine. So what is the car doing when you are trying to start. Does it try to turn over, or does it just click. I try and push the clutch switch behind the pedal manually and try and start it. Maybe the pedal isnt hitting the switch like its supposed to. Or you may just have a bad battery or something.

But the gears this sounds like something isnt connected correctly like the shifter cable

 

This is what i understood... the stick is in neutral and the car is behaving as if it is in gear... like trying to jump forward when its being started

 

I had something like this once with an old Colt. Check your shifter cable from where it attaches to the trans to the firewall. Mine had a loos cable mount and that allowed enough slop in the cable that it was terrible getting into gear (Reverse was the first that had a problem). I caught mine long before it got to the point yours is but I had 2 screws on the same cable holder that had both come loose and allowed the cable to wobble vice move how it was supposed to.