Hello H-t,

So I had a b16 swapped into my 2000 DX civic roughly 4 months ago and today as I was driving the car suddenly got really hard to drive. A few weeks ago, it became really hard to get the car into gear. It also made a winding noise while I drove on the hwy. Today the car just suddenly began acting really weird and here are the symptoms:

1) hard to shift - i greased up the fork, now that problem is gone

2) Car sort of almost stalls in 1st and hops a little bit - I have a feeling it could be the pressure plate possibly? I have put the car in 1st with the e-brake on, and the car makes a noticeable noise. Everytime I engage the clutch now, the car jerks before it gets into gear.

I believe its time for a new clutch/pressure plate/throw out bearing. I have tried searching, a few times and it seems as though this is the culprit, but what i really want to find is a DIY of a pic by pic process, so I can possibly attempt it myself and save. Thanks for your help and patience.

 

seems as though you have it figured out. its not hard, just time consuming

 

does any1 have any links to DIYs with pix??? I have never removed a tranny before and would love to give it a try...

 

i just replaced mine. no DIY that i know of but
take off the starter
take off the hydrolic line
take off the axles
take off the shift linkage
put a jack under the motor and tranny
there are the surrounding 17mm bolts. take them off and then lower the jack under the tranny and slide it off