Me and a friend were driving through downtown Albuquerque today and my car (91' CRX Si) started f'ing up on me. I came to a stop and when I pressed the clutch in it had very little 'resistance' to it. The light turned green so I tried to put it in 1st and it wouldn't go. People started honking at me so I told my friend to hop out and push it...after about 20 ft. I jumped out to help push and then jumped back in to see if I could get it into gear. I got it into 1st, but not very easily.

I figured I would try to make it home and avoid lights and traffic. I made it home and it didn't happen quite that bad on the trip there. I won't have time to look at it until tomorrow, but was wondering what it could be. I can do 'basic' maintenance to my cars, but am clueless when it comes to stuff like this. Where should I start?

Cliff notes: Driving around today, I think my clutch went out on me (not sure), I need some suggestions on what it could be.

 

u might need to try adjusting the clutch cable

 

adjust the clutch cable, that'll fix it.....tighten it down.

 

list detailed descriptions of the symptoms.

 

does the clutch disenguages and enguages fine when your shifting gears? it might just be a matter of tightening your adjustment star or it could be something wrong with your release fork/release berring

 

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First of all, thanks for all of the replies so far I just got back from shooting pool and having a couple of Bodingtons

The symptoms are as follows:

-no/very little pressure when pushing the clutch in

-very difficult to put into any gear

-slight shudder when starting out in 1st gear

*maybe related-the previous owner put a new clutch in and maybe it needs some adjustment, I dunno.

Luckily I still have my 00' EX Coupe as a back-up still. I may just keep it until I get a little more work done to the rex. I don't have the money right now to buy a Helms for the CRX right now...do Chilton or Haynes manuals provide good instruction on how to do repairs?