97civic02

so im driving one day and it goes into first fine....second fine...third not so fine...fouth was impossible to get into....when i push in the clutch pedal there is normal pressure it doesnt feel any different...but when ur driving down the road and push it in the rpm's dont go down...its a stage 3 comp. clutch and had never slipped once...the jus for no reason its doing this...do you think that it jus went out all of a sudden or do you think it could possibly b something else???

92lxsleeper

bleed the slave cylinder and tighten all the connections.

sounds like you may have a small leak somewhere.

97civic02

alright ill try that....a buddy of mine works at a local shop and they dirt track race...they have a 95 accord that he said did the same thing...and when they took the trans out the clutch had jus exploded

92lxsleeper

what brand clutch also? i only use oem clutches and never had a problem with them. i have 97k miles on the stock clutch right now and its only slipping a little bit in between gears under a hard throttle... blame that to a second gear burnout that decided to slip the clutch instead of the wheels

D16SiHatch

eek ^ there was a guy a few years ago at Mopar in his srt-4 that did a similar thing. only he didn't realize the tires weren't moving and kept revving the engine until the transmission/clutch exploded, shooting orange glowing shrapnel all over the parking lot

92lxsleeper

luckily mine didn't go that far. i smelt the "burning brake pad" smell and shut down right then. and OMG was the clutch bad for about a month. it glazed all to hell. but still its going strong. at least it only takes about 4 hours to replace a clutch when it finally goes. and at the same time will be my z6/si tranny swap. if not a DOHC ZC or D16A9 (ya i know, same engine)