Okay, I'm starting to have problems with my clutch, and I -think- I may have to replace it. I have noticed that the clutch seems to engage at different points, sometimes way down near the floor (almost gripping with the clutch pedal all the pushed in). Sometimes it's very hard to shift, into third and fourth especially (very painful gear clashing sound), as if it's not disengaging at all. It's also squeaking from the clutch area. Also, the pedal effort is significantly more than on my cable clutch on my 91 Civic. This, by the way, is a 94 Integra GSR, with 118k on it. I believe it's the original clutch, but I've only owned the car for two weeks and don't know.

Here are my questions:
1. Any chance that this in not yet the clutch? Should I replace master and slave cylinders first and see, or just bite the bullet and do the clutch.
2. This just occured to me when I thought about all the steps on taking out the tranny (have done it on a CRX once, should be similar on the Integra): When disassembling the suspension to get the halfshafts out, do you think it would be possible to only do the passenger side, take out that halfshaft, unbolt the tranny, and then the driver's side halfshaft will pop out of the tranny when it drops?? All manuals always say to disassemble both sides, and that's what I've done. How tricky will it be to fit the tranny back up with the driver's side halfshaft already in place? Just trying to cut some of the work.

Sorry for the lengthy post.

Stefan

 

make sure there is enough fluid in the clutch resevoir, or try and purge the system. I had an air bubble in my system and the clutch engaged when the pedal was all the way out.

 

Your description sounds to me like air in the system or a bad master cylinder. I'd try that first before dropping the transmission.

I don't know about the left driveshaft. Actually it would be the intermediate shaft. Sounds tempting, but it's enough of a PITA to line up the input shaft into the clutch & get it hooked up. I don't need one MORE stupid thing that has to be lined up just right...

 

go straight for the clutch, similar problem with mine and i replaced the master and slave cylinders but no joy, go for the clutch, aint that much for a clutch!!!

 

Hmm, i'd check out how the master cyl's doin

 

The gear clashing may have been caused the syncro's in the transmition. A cheap fix for this comes in a can. Its called syncro-mesh and its made by chevy, I could only find it at the chevy dealership here. It may solve your gear clashing problom. Check it out.