O My Clutch!!!

[babyviper]

I installed a sprung 6-puck with a 2100 pressure plate in august. the clutch felt funny, bled it and it was fine, and after a few weeks it started engaging closer and closer to the floor with no pressure (freeplay) at the top of the pedal. until it stated engaging so close to the floor i could hardly get the clutch off the flywheel. I took it back to the transmission place and they told me that it was the adjustment and that my pressure plate was ###### going bad. so... about a week later (today) I am beating on the car, I let it warm up first, of and on down the street then all of a sudden after about 30-45 minutes worth of driving the pedal starts engaging at the top of the pedal like my clutch was gone. I adjusted the pedal inward, which was wrong, and the pedal didn't come out far enough to grab, so I bring it back out. After i bring it back out and drive for five minutes The clutch starts acting fine again engaging close to the floor. can anybody explain this to me is it crankwalk? fked up clutch? transmision place fked up installation or fked up driveline parts? I need to know because my money is tight and I'm not giving up my dsm for a civic.


I don't really care if it is crankwalk because I'll drive the car very rarely and save up for the swap instead of a t-belt install.

 

[babyviper]

anybody?

 

[Old Mitsu Tech]

Assuming you did not have this problem before, I wonder if something was hanging up in the throw out bearing area? You might look at how far the slave cylinder is stroking when someone pushes the clutch to the floor. Compare this to a known good one and see what you get. Perhaps some others can chime in with other ideas.

Good Luck

 

[TalonD27A]

I installed a sprung 6-puck with a 2100 pressure plate in august. the clutch felt funny, bled it and it was fine, and after a few weeks it started engaging closer and closer to the floor with no pressure (freeplay) at the top of the pedal. until it stated engaging so close to the floor i could hardly get the clutch off the flywheel. I took it back to the transmission place and they told me that it was the adjustment and that my pressure plate was ###### going bad. so... about a week later (today) I am beating on the car, I let it warm up first, of and on down the street then all of a sudden after about 30-45 minutes worth of driving the pedal starts engaging at the top of the pedal like my clutch was gone. I adjusted the pedal inward, which was wrong, and the pedal didn't come out far enough to grab, so I bring it back out. After i bring it back out and drive for five minutes The clutch starts acting fine again engaging close to the floor. can anybody explain this to me is it crankwalk? fked up clutch? transmision place fked up installation or fked up driveline parts? I need to know because my money is tight and I'm not giving up my dsm for a civic.


I don't really care if it is crankwalk because I'll drive the car very rarely and save up for the swap instead of a t-belt install.

Hard to say if the problem has no repeatability. Have you looked at the master and slave cylinders for leaks or even ever replaced them. If one of those is going bad, it will cause the pedal to act like that. Check the master for leaks in the cabin first. I know you mentioned money is tight, but whenever I change a clutch out on a dsm I ususally replace the both cylinders. Only use OEM parts.

 

[babyviper]

when i did my cluch i replaced my master, slave, fork and fulcrum ball. it never happened before and it hasn't happened again but, i haven't been beating on the car.

 

[TalonD27A]

when i did my cluch i replaced my master, slave, fork and fulcrum ball. it never happened before and it hasn't happened again but, i haven't been beating on the car.

Bleed the system one more time and if it happens again then you either have a defective master and or slave, or something is installed wrong.

 

[babyviper]

Bleed the system one more time and if it happens again the you either have a defective master and or slave, or something is installed wrong.

thanks i thought is was something they did and not my 7-bolt i think im going to build a 6- bolt anyway though just to be safe