in jan of this year i had a clutch repalced, since then i have been fighting the clutch being super tight. i have replaced busing for the shifter, brake calpiers, new cable, not much good since if you sit at a light for a couple of minsutes with the clutch in sometimes the car will stick like the brakes hang up, give give it gas to get it to move. the last few days the clutch seems ever tighter then normal since i ankle has been hurting after driveing for a while. like today i did some running around for an hour and my left ankle was sore.
the cable has been adjusted lots of ways and it still comes back to being a super tight clutch.....any ideas besides dumping the car and getting something else?
I am not sure what you mean by "super tight".
But, sitting at a light with the clutch depressed is one of the worst sins imaginable. It wears the engine's thrust bearing, it wears the pilot bushing, it wears the throwout bearing (which is not meant to take more than momentary loads), the friction surfaces are free to wear each other as the disc bounces around in there, and it is a safety concern: if you are bumped from behind, you can slip off of the clutch and hit the car in front of you or enter cross traffic.
Do you mean the clutch is stiff to push down, or do you mean it's difficult to get it into gear?
A bad or poorly lubricated pilot bushing can keep the input shaft spinning with the engine and make it hard to get the car in first gear and can sometimes make you think the clutch isn't disengaging all the way. No fun to fix, but not expensive.
Did you have a heavy duty clutch installed ?
its a stock clutch as for as i know, its easy to gets into gears. itsa just a pain in the ass to push the pedal is the issue.
If the clutch is cable actuated check the cable for binds, kinks, or stretches. If the cable was not routed correctly when reinstalled any of these things can happen. You may need to replace the cable if it has one.
If it is hydraulic you may need to bleed it. If it is an external slave cylinder it may be off of the proper contact point with the throwout bearing fork.
Streetwiseguy wrote:
What kind of car?
Good point. Going from a hydraulically operated Ranger which I could change gears with one toe; to my buddy's older full size Ford where my thigh started burning in traffic, mmmm yeah.
Gotta work out more.
Dan
