Anyone ever install a clutch cable? Any guidelines, gotcha's, or issues I should know about before attempting? I can't afford for the car to be out of commision for long.

phil

 

all i can say is its easy

 

all you need is a flashlight, takes a total of 5 minutes tops....

 

You just need a little muscle and patience.

 

grab the haynes manual if you dont know what you're doing. even a total beginner who doesnt know what a clutch cable is/does can do it in 5 min

 

piece of cake, takes 2 minutes, just loosen it at the tranny (all the way) and pull it out of the tranny hook, then crawl under the dash and unhook it from the clutch, then go back to the engine and pull it out, reverse is opposite.....installed many in my old car with my stage 2 clutchmaster clutch, i broke one about every 6 months

 

yes as posted above very easy to do.

 

how do you know the clutch cable is bad or going out? I tighten mine up(adjust) and it loosens itself up somehow...

 

Does it actually loosen itself, or feel to loosen? I had a problem similiar to that and what had happened was that the clutch pedal itself was seperating from the pedal assembly.

 

I guess I mean it adjusts it self right back to the floor. I step in on the clutch and the engagement point is right about where it should be. Then a couple of tries later, the engagement point is gone. I have to JAM the pedal to the floorboard to get it to go into gear. When I go to adjust the white collar nut at the tranny, it is loose again . ????

 

My advise - get under the dash and take a look at your pedal assembly, can't take more then three minutes and it will narrow one major source of trouble.

 

If you wanna be extra cool when you do this, instead of routing the cable above the intake manifold, put it underneath. Makes it look a lot cleaner. You might as well since it will be out anyway.

 

I did have a haynes manual and the installation was very easy. Thanks Honda! But I'm not confident of my clutch adjustment. It's difficult to try to tell someone how it's done, so I'll probably find someone to show me. That is, unless someone else thinks they can explain it. I've got an FSM, but it's focus is on the pedal adjustment and doesn't tell me squat about the cable.

I replaced the cable because I had no more adjustment left. When the car is sitting at idle, I would put the trans in first gear, then into reverse, and it would grind. It doesn't do that anymore, so I'm assuming the new cable has helped, at least some.

Anyway, thanks for the encouragement and the help.

phil