THE CLUTCH ON MY 89 CRX SI IS SHOT. I dont think its gonna last until i get my swap... What is a good low priced clutch, with decent performance?? How hard would it be to install a new clutch, i have never done one and have little experience with them. Although i can recruit some good help (ie. dad). And approximately how long does it take to do the install? TIA

 

depends how good you are...you gotta drop the trans...i would get an exedy they are pretty cheap ad good performance...but someone will bash any brand clutch...but if your swapping your motor soon just get something cheap

 

My brother and i changed out my clutch not so long ago...ITS A BITCH, I MEAN A BITCH. You gotta actually angle the engine down a little so that you can take the tranny out, aligning the tranny with the engine to put it back in takes a while (I guess it wouldnt if you have an engine hoist, but we had to use jacks ), total took about 10 hours (Seeing as we didnt have a clue what we were doing, all we had was the older Chilton manual and a cheap Dynapak clutch from Autozone) In the end it wasnt as hard as we thought it would be but it was still hard. If you plan on doing it yourself, do yourself a favor n go to your local auto parts store n look for a 10MM 12 point socket (I think it was a 10mm... or was it an 8mm... i forgot ) youyll need it to take the pressure plate off the flywheel. We didnt have the socket but we had a closed end wrench that did the trick... It was hell but it saved us $300 labor. If you do it yourself, it helps a lot to have another person help, if not, a neccesity.



[Modified by hondaspeed85, 8:38 PM 11/1/2002]

 

Oh yea, as to what clutch to get. Since youre getting a swap soon just get either the Exedy OEM spec clutch or a cheap Dynapak clutch (or whatever clutch your local auto parts store carries. My Dynapak works great regular driving, but i'm scared to death to race on it just incase i might break it (I never heard of Fenco Dynapak so i dunno n e thing about them) They're both around the same price. O one more tip, the pressure plate only goes on one way, so if you try n put it on the flywheel and the holes dont line up, keep rotating the pressureplate till it lines up with everything...we almost killed someone when we thought they gave us the wrong clutch

 

What do you mean by angling down the motor?? Do u have to loosen the mounts or something??

 

yea, first you gotta put a jack under the engine or attach an engine hoist to the engine, unbolt all the mounts attached to the tranny, then loosen the engine mount bolt and lower the tranny side of the engine, so itll clear the engine bay for you to pull the tranny out.


[Modified by hondaspeed85, 8:41 PM 11/1/2002]

 

all the info above is just the jist of it. You still gotta unbolt some your passenger side suspension so that you can pull the axles out...Good luck man

 

Just take the motor out (if you have a hoist) , it will be much easier. I took my motor out swaped trannys and had it back in, in a total of 5 hours by my self.

 

having done a clutch change both engine in and engine out, I would seriously suggest
taking the entire engine out. It is so much easier to access all the bolts etc. with the engine
sitting on an old pallet, and you also won't wreck your back trying to hump in a tranny at some
bad angle. This also gives you the opportunity to change that old coolant. If I may suggest a
quick trick, instead of undoing the throttle cable and having to re-adjust it during the re- install,
just take off the cable support bracket instead (it's only two 10mm bolts).


good luck

 

I'd suggest all out too. Disconnect the wire harness from the car-side. It takes me near an hour to take an engine out or put it back in, but my hoist doesn't have the angle adjustment piece. It's just a length of chain.