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turbo_jimi · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:04 pm Post subject: Throw-out bearing binding up?

Car 85Z t5

Problem: after getting a new clutch installed in 04, i noticed that the pedal was stiff when depressing it when shifting...3 years later, and hardly any miles on it, sold it to RSFreak, and one day, the clutch pedal seized up and could no longer be depressed...kept breaking the little plastic clip off the pedal. Shifts in all gears just fine when car is not on...lol! Any ideas?

Help appreciated!

turbo_jimi
Buying back the 85Z

turbo_jimi · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject:

hmmm...is this a retarded question or a first? LOL Wink

Sellmanb · Member Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 727 Location: Tigard, OR

i am confused which little plastic clip it is that keeps breaking?

a stiff pedal would mean the pressure plate is stiff or has some sort of a preload. If you take the slave cylinder out of the trans and keep it hooked up, and hit the clutch (while I'm sure it may kill the slave cylinder), does it still feel hard?

Xophertony · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:58 pm Post subject:

well, i can't help with your actual problem, but i can tell you this LOOSE that plastic "bushing retainer". they are crap. a brand new one from gm lasted me less then a year. buy a bag of brake pedal retainer clips (5 to a package) and use one of them instead. i broke the retainer tabs off the bushing and still ran the plastic bushing. the clutch pedal has not fallen off the car since.

bobby, here is the difference:

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject:

I just got one off a brake pedal in the junk yard.

-Schultzy

Xophertony · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:31 pm Post subject:

the trip to the junkyard cost you almost as much as i paid for five brand new ones Very Happy

i think the whole bag was under 3$. the only time i have ever left a dealership thinking i got a good deal.

305 302eater · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:11 am Post subject:

Sounds like maybe the slave cylinder went out. Or maybe the master cylinder. But I would lean towards the slave. Just a idea, unbolt the slave cylinder from the bell housing, push the pushrod in all the way and have someone push on the break pedal if nothing is different i would say its the master then. But I might be way off.

turbo_jimi · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks...pulling apart in a couple of weeks and I will find out for sure