when I first got my car and knew nothing about it, I had a friend at good year get me a new clutch, and put it in, but it wasn't OEM. He said it had a heavy duty pressure plate, and could take a lot of abuse(since I was knew to 5 speed as well). Being the import hater he is, he can't even remember what clutch it was, but it was $500 bucks I know that much. Well anyway, the issue is...its making a rubbing or lil screech time noise when I push it down. It did this one time before then it went away, today I noticed it feeling "notchy" as I was pushing it down. And now when its disengaged, and then I re-engage it, it squeeks but if I pump it the noise slowly drifts away, then I let it out for a few seconds, push it again, and screech. I checked the fluid, and it wasn't low at all, but I topped it off just to make sure, but even when the car wasn't running, it was makin this noise when I push the pedal down. I was thinkin its the throw out bearing...but I mean the clutch has 5,000 miles on it, and I'm pretty sure I got a new throw out bearing when I got the clutch. BTW its a 94 LS Hydro. Anybody have any ideas? thanks.

 

i would guess throwout bearing, and the notchy could be either the clutch not disengaging the whole way, or syncros

 

Throw out bearing for sure

 

take it apart and see if anything looks funky in there. i would guess the throughout bearking though. did he use a lot of grease on the bearing before putting it it???

 

I was told by someone that the where the fork meets the slave cylinder, needs to be greased? they said I should grease the pivot ball there, and then spray some lithium grease towards the other end of the fork, and it should work out fine