Grinding and Lurching

No, I'm not talking about the new Miley Cyrus video, I'm talking about my van. Get your minds out of the gutter.

So tonight when I went to start it up, it would lurch forward, like I didn't have the clutch pedal depressed. After a couple lurches, the shifter was fairly stuck in gear, even with the clutch pedal depressed. I managed to get the shifter into neutral and the engine started. But whenever I would try and put the shifter into gear while the engine was idling, it would grind and not let it connect into gear. It has been sitting for a few weeks with a cover on it. I hope the clutch didn't go out.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

- Charlie

sometimes a clutch will stick to the pressure plate & flywheel. pull the cover off & watch it when a buddy presses in on the clutch. also check all linkages & such??

Thanks for the replys. I'm going to have to get my wife to run the shifter while I'm underneath looking at the linkages. She's 5 months pregnant, so we'll see when I can actually get that to happen. I'll post my results.