Currently I drive a 2007 NHBP sedan with 30k on the odometer. The problem I am having is that I can not really shift into any gear. I have to use a lot of force in order to barely be able to shift. I am wondering what the problem could be. I took it to Honda and they said it was my clutch but I am thinking that might be it but I think it might be a different problem. I have only 5k on a brand new exedy stage 1 clutch. so can someone tell me what else the problem can be b/c its kinda hard to dish out the money for a new clutch right now.

 

is it grinding at all? or just physically hard to shift? i guess if the clutch want fully disengaing. did you torque down the clutch plate to the right amount. not sure if the new civics are any different but i put a exedy stage 1 in my 97 civic and you have to make sure the center plates are aligned perfectly too. should be parallel with flywheel face if i remember correctly.

 

if you didn't break in the clutch you could of screwed the pressure plate

 

sounds like you busted a spring or it fell out, of the clutch disc. sometimes luck happens and you dont dammage the fly , but if the spring broke or popped out you will need a new disc, this is a commen prob with the exedy kits purchased from ebay. i went through 2 of the stage 1 street discs in 5 months, from a company called f1 on ebay in my hatch .. now im using ACT HDSS kits in both my hondas. i did have to modify to run in my fa5 cause thats considered a stage 3 kit. you should be fine without modifying on stage 1. go to whoever did the work for you and find out where they got your clutch, and ask if they will warranty it, if its the spring. other thing to check is bad throwout bearing .. not uncommen..

 

why would it matter if the exedy clutch is bought off ebay or elsewhere? it's still an exedy clutch.

anyway, yeah it does sound like the clutch is ****ed up.

 

ummmmm. because sometimes company's such as f1 that i dealt with were not backed by Exedy and when i contacted them they said to contact Exedy and when i did they said they did not back them as a distributor of their product and that they may have been selling sub par parts. thats why!!! now if you read some of the reviews on the Exedy kits sold on ebay you will also find others with the same complaints and if you were to contact Exedy, they will give you a full list of the retailers they back as far as warranty claims and all instructions as to how their warranty works. I spose your new to the world of shady sales on the internet or in general. you can also buy a box with a brick in it on canal in NYC and the guy will tell you its a top of the line camcorder or whatever and by time you turn the corner they're out, but hey deal seemed so good at 1st right??. suckers are born everyday.

not to say that some ebay parts arnt any good, i have a friend using a eclutchmasters clutch off ebay in an em1 and beats the **** out of it, with no trouble what so ever , but when it comes to name brand clutches you may wanna check to see if the retailers a legit backed company for what they sell. but hey its your car and your money . buy what you want. I could care less if your car is running , burning , dead ect......no my prolem.

 

are you saying that f1 of part of exedy? otherwise, i'm not seeing why exedy should back f1. only idiots get ripped off on ebay. no i'm not new to ebay nor the internet, and i've never been ripped off. i ordered an exedy clutch on ebay and got an exedy clutch in the mail shortly thereafter. crazy, i know. it was the cheapest place to order from, so i got it there.

 

I think what he is getting at is there are imitation products on ebay. I bought some drafting pens on ebay for an unbelievable price after some use I could tell they were knock offs. They looked the same except the name rubbed off easily.

 

its either an exedy clutch or it isn't. i've never heard of "imitation exedy" clutches, maybe i just haven't been paying attention. just because it was sold on ebay doesn't mean its an "ebay brand." shitty clutches like f1 can't be compared to brands like exedy.

 

Sounds like either your clutch is toast, or your transmission is starving for fluid (aka new trans).

 

And again like i said before some things arnt what they should be , the f1 listing that i had used said EXEDY clutch with f1 flywheel. Yes it was cheap and yes it looked to be a good deal and when i got it . it looked just like an EXEDY. There is a reason that a typical stage 3 clutch will run you around a $1000 or more from a reputible company(clutch-n-flywheel) and why you can buy one for 400 on ebay. Yes for a 2nd car I figured it was worth a shot and I realized it wasnt when it was not what it said it was.

Now for your take on things since your stupidity always seems to stand on your head and take over for your mouth. If you were to read more than just every other line you would have seen that , I said it was sold from f1 as an EXEDY clutch, I then proceeded to inform you that when i contacted EXEDY they said they did not warranty items sold by f1 and explained that a retailer that is backed by them (EXEDY) will be warranteed. They also stated that plenty of knock off parts are out there that are stamped with the names of higher end brands on them, that are NOT what they say they are. If you want to know what retailers are backed by the bigger companies EXEDY..ACT..SPEC..CLUTCH MASTERS..ect.ect, then you may wanna check up on a retailer selling their product for way below retail, because they may not be what they say and they may not be backed at all. that was the point , EVERYONE gets ripped off at some point so for you to say you have never been ripped off ..... dont worry you will be at sometime in your life..you wont be left out..

 

^so first you're "supposing" that i'm new to the internet and whatnot, and then you're crying about how YOU got ripped off? whose the noob here? use your little brain, and you won't get ripped off anymore .

 

dude first off you were more than likely still busy playing with your barny doll , shittin green, and still hangin off mommy's tit when i started modding cars, as for being ripped off yup i did am i crying about it ? NOPE MORON!! Again my point being that you need me to write out in crayon is that alot of people that have used a so called Exedy clutch off ebay did not get what they paid for. the springs blowing out of the disc's is commen, and causes this exact problem as stated above. see if you new **** about cars you may know for 1 that a broken or slipped spring will cause this exact problem, car wont shift into gear..

have you not yet learned , your an idiot when it comes to the k20 , you know what im talking about ! how you also dont understand about what a head is and whats required to work another k series head onto our cars , but im a newb..duh!! this is my 3rd k motor and 1 of them being a complete swap into my 93 hatch .. so boy wonder far from a newb here. go speak **** to your friends down at your local parking lot , but find the one that dont know **** as well , then you may seem intellegent about your motor.

yea i put a cheap clutch in a car that i used as a winter beater, big deal ! you wont hear me cry over it . i knew it was cheap did not look for a race car feel out of it, but since both my fa5 and my dc5 trannys are both set up with ACT units and did my research in order to use on both these trannys, and guess what they both funtion perfectly. when i care about a car ill make sure the parts that go in our both good and that they come from a reputible company and suplier.

the cheap clutch that yea i tried to get a deal on was to go into a sohc 1.5 ltre motor in a whooped out 87 hatch , so even when it went as quick as it did, i really didnt thin much of it , and about a month later when i finally lifted it up and pulled it apart, to drive it this winter. i realized that the spring was where the problem came from so i passed on my knowledge to the question of my car wont shift into any gear..you needed to know what ebay had to do with it so i told you!! but as for crying i didnt cry when i destroyed a $3000 SPEC clutch in my wifes s2000. i got more **** laying around for our cars just because we get bored with so a broken part is far from a big deal worth crying over, when part of my fun is dragging the 1/4 in a boosted hatch, i break **** all the time...so as i see it your the one shedding tears over there, because you were again made to look pretty dumb.

 

ah, gotcha . good thing we got a smart guy like you to keep me in check . internet: serious business!

 

What's up with all the but hurting in here?

 

Come on man. If you're gonna correct someone else's grammar and/or spelling, at least type correctly in your own post.

 

i'm not the "smart guy" here typing out paragraph after paragraph to simply tell the other guy that he's an idiot. if he was half as smart as he might think he is, his spelling wouldn't look like that of a 3rd grader. i misspelled my words on purpose, he misspelled them on accident. btw, you misspelled a word too .

 

What word is that?

 

can't tell if you're being serious or not through the internet, but gonna= going to.

 

Ok dude, you're just being a moron. Gonna is a word, meaning "going to". Look it up in the dictionary.

 

wtf, you're right. i remember always getting marked off for writing 'gonna' back in elementary school. was it always considered a word?

 

It's not in any legitimate dictionaries.

 

I don't know. At least since 1995 when the dictionary next to my computer was published.

 

according to http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gonna it's not a word, according to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gonna it is. damnit, which is it. i always heard it wasn't. well, this thread has taken a turn.

 

have we not already been through this not being an English class and if your getting the point who cares , and vladd if you were not constantly looking to correct everyone's grammer, and would realize why some things get posted we would not end up here and we could move onto the next post. kinda , that meening kind of , when i said the ebay thing you didnt need to blow it out of proportion , i explained and you turn it into me crying yet there was no crying , if read correctly. think if it were not for someone saying hey beware then we would all be in trouble , I simply told him what to beware of , for all we know he got his clutch from his local speed shop, but having the bad expierence myself , was just able to throw that out there as something to be warned of. So what was the problem here? not spelling or knowledge, but the simple fact that you prefer to critisize everyone.

We should all be here to help eachother , not be a bunch of DICKS, save that for the DUMBASS in the the crowd that wants to talk **** about how your riced out civic is a piece of **** and drive American , starts their ****.

point and purpose of this sight is to help and learn what can be done with our cars and sticking together as our own little community of tuner car enthusiast's.