As stated above. The cluth is fine although while shifting..i need to add a lil force to my arm just to get it into gear. It doesnt grind at all..pops into gear with ease..what can be the caused to this? I need to get the shift softer so i can shift with ease.

 

how do you know it's not the clutch? What car is this?

 

its for a 1992 civic HB si. can it be the cluth? becauwse it presses down fine and comes back up with ease. my problem is the stiff shifter.

 

well, your pedal going to the floor and coming back up doesn't mean that your clutch is working correctly. I have a good feeling it's probably your clutch going out. Have you checked your clutch fluid reservoir to make sure that it is filled to the proper spec? Have you bled your clutch lines lately?

 

ill check on that. any other inputs before i give this a shot ?

 

Well for how long has this been going? This happened to me once and it was my synchros. It didn't grind at first, but a few weeks went by and sure enough it started to grind. My shifting fork was also broken. Maybe it could be as simple as just checking the tranny fluid. You could go ahead and change it. It's a pain in the ass on a manual tranny though.

 

Does the shifter move a lot? Could it be your linkage is loose?

I'm with Josh, though... it sounds like it's your clutch adjustment. Instead of mashing on the shifter to push it into gear, press the shifter lightly and see if after a while, it goes in on its own. The harder you mash on the shifter, the more friction you're asserting on the synchros... that's why they go bad.

Often times when the clutch isn't disengaging fully, you'll feel that if you're trying to speed-shift because the engine rpms have to drop low enough for the next gear. If this is what yours does with light pressure on the shifter, go get your clutch adjusted.