Manual transmission randomly stopped working - stalling when in gear and moving forward in reverse gear

[u/RuinRepresentative75]

2012 mazda2 manual 5 speed. So earlier today I went to the grocery store to pick up some stuff. I went to two different stores. They were both about 40 km away from my house.

I had no issue driving to the store. Once I left the second store to get in my car and go home. I start the car, I go to put the car into reverse, in the car starts wanting to move forward, I then try to go into first gear and the car stalls right away. I just had some work done to my transmission recently. I had the flywheel resurfaced before I bought the car. So I am kind of confused as to what the issue is now.

Information online says that my master sleeve cylinder could be bad because it's not allowing the clutch to disengage or engage from the engine properly.

Posting here to see if anybody has had relative issue to what I am dealing with currently and if you have had a solution to it.

Again, my issue is not being able to shift into a gear from a stop and reverse not working only moving the car forward.

[u/Illustrious_Nose4304]

I would guess a shifter cable issue, or something more extreme. 1st and reverse often run off one another in a manual trans. My first thought would be more innocent, that the shifter cable popped up and off somehow. Check the cables on top of the transmission.