So my civic is plagued by the typical Honda clutch pedal "popping" and "creaking"... My clutch master cylinder has already been replaced by Honda. today I narrowed it down to the spring assist on the clutch pedal. There is a lot of play in the spring where it attaches to the assembly bushings, and that's the popping it makes when it rubs... I also noticed there was a broken plastic piece near where it attaches that just fell off when I touched it with a screw driver (I'm assuming it had something to do with stabilizing the spring), but I didn't see the rest of the plastic piece, so I'm not 100% sure what it did. What broke???

My question is, if I buy a new spring, are they easy to swap out? And what plastic piece should I order along with it? For those of you who are pretty familiar with the clutch pedal assembly on these civics... Thanks

 

and this is where i found that plastic piece circled in orange

 

I had an issue with my toyota tacoma and to repair that plastic you needed to remove that bracket, put it in a vice and take it apart.

I would try to get a look at a honda service manual to see just what needs to be removed to get at it, to me it doesn't look like there is much to removing it.