clutch pedal

[soon2bdropped]

PostPosted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:09 am Post subject: clutch pedal Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post
i don't know how do i go about asking this but.. yes on newers car that ive driven at work thats stick. theres like no pedal play or slack.. like if u floor the clutch u can bring it all the way out.. on my cars that i owned. i can rest my feet on the clutch and the pedal will go about 2-5 inches in.. on newer cars the peda is stiff as quit if i rest my feet it just stay right there..

all the cars i've owned if u try to rest ur feet on the clutch the clutch has a slack of 5-6 inches and than if u push a lil more u start disengaging the clutch..

is there a way i can stop this or its normal.. i don't think its air in the hydraulic system because MC and slave was changed and bleed even i bleed it so more so thats the max pressure i'm gonna get.. maybe change pedals? or even the spring? or its all about the metal on the clutch?


i can rest my foot on the clutch a good 3-5" and not disengage clutch but i hate that slack though..

[Accord13&BA4]

You can surely adjust your clutch pedal itself, so it gives you play, or none.
There is a 8-10mm bolt behind the pedal that releases that small shaft that goes to the master cylinder, you just have to adjust it to give you that, "play" you are looking for. Too much play, however(3-5 inches!!?), and you'll find yourself revvving and no speed...that is after the clutch gets warmed up. So be cautious in adjusting the pedal too much. y0.

I like a firm clutch pedal.
It just reassures me that everything is irie.

[soon2bdropped]

but wouldn't that make the clutch engage higher? i like it when it engages like half way... if i adjust the bolt it will move the clutch engagement point right? but make the pedal stiff as shit?

[NAiL05]

Pedal stiffness deals with your pressure plate. Adjusting the pedal just adjusts where it catches. It doesnt adjust the stiffness.

[DeathFromAbove]

i love the play in my pedal.

[Accord13&BA4]

Pedal stiffness deals with your pressure plate. Adjusting the pedal just adjusts where it catches. It doesnt adjust the stiffness.

uh...you still can make your pedal firm by adjusting the pedal foward or back. I just did this to 2 cars last week, i changed the master cylinder, bled the system and had to adjust the pedals to make firm for the customers liking...

...a heavy pressure plate means that the clutch pedal will be "heavier/harder" to push down. Subsequently, a lighter pressure plate(like in the RSX's) are super light, super easy to "push down."

...if you want a crazy short engagement look into one of those "shortened" master cylinders.

There should always be "slight" play in the clutch pedal, but not 3-5 inches man!

[NAiL05]

Sure I have never witnessed a stiffness change whenever I adjusted my pedal. You said you bled it and all that stuff after that could have made a difference in how the pedal was feeling. The only time I have felt a difference was when I put in my stg 3 clutch with Honda OEM TO bearing compared to the POS one that was in there.

[soon2bdropped]

still stump!!!!

[The G-Man]

Sure I have never witnessed a stiffness change whenever I adjusted my pedal. You said you bled it and all that stuff after that could have made a difference in how the pedal was feeling. The only time I have felt a difference was when I put in my stg 3 clutch with Honda OEM TO bearing compared to the POS one that was in there.

Agreed.
When my clutch was first replaced it was crazy stiff, and I liked it. However, it seems I have broken the pressure plate in and it is softer now. It is ok, it only has to get me by until the summer when I am redoing everything.

[wed3k]

uh...you still can make your pedal firm by adjusting the pedal foward or back. I just did this to 2 cars last week, i changed the master cylinder, bled the system and had to adjust the pedals to make firm for the customers liking...

...a heavy pressure plate means that the clutch pedal will be "heavier/harder" to push down. Subsequently, a lighter pressure plate(like in the RSX's) are super light, super easy to "push down."

...if you want a crazy short engagement look into one of those "shortened" master cylinders.

There should always be "slight" play in the clutch pedal, but not 3-5 inches man!

except they dont make shortened/performance master cylinders...

[NAiL05]

except they dont make shortened/performance master cylinders...

AT least for our application. Omnipower makes em for the tegs and civics. As for ours well kinda SOL unless you can somehow mount the lude one on if they even make one for that too lol.

[soon2bdropped]

i'm still stump... because all the other 100 cars i drive a day.. the clutch pedal doesn't have any slack. whatsoever...

[cp[mike]]

u replace the master cylinder yet? bleed it again.

[soon2bdropped]

u replace the master cylinder yet? bleed it again.

yes master and slave brand new... bleed so many times.. i mean when u press on the clutch its soft.. as you push it in more u have to use more strength..

has pressure. just that the very top part of the pedal doesn't get hard until u push it to like 5-6 inches..

[lokuputha]

worst case scenario: go to ur local honda mechanic...$80 they'll adjust it properly