clutch adjustment rs

akinaspeedstar

akinaspeedstar

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so i was on my way to make a 2 hour drive up north and as i pull out of my drive clutch is really squishy ut still works but every shift it gets worse until it goes to the floor and stays there. luckly this is 10 mins from my house and i just rev match like a bastard and limp it home. the piston that pushes on the clutch acutation plate for lack of a better word isn't touching. so at fully down its just barely pushing against it, not enough to fully engage it. is there an adjustment for that? that plate seems really loose.

 
Hydraulic clutch?

No - sounds like you have a leaking slave cylinder. Hydraulic clutches don't require adjustment - they either work or they don't.

Unless there was air in the system, but you haven't changed the hose lately I'm sure.

 
try bleeding your slave cylinder. I would say its either a bad slave, or master cylinder. That happened in my 240 one time and it turned out to be a bad master cylinder (it was brand new too).

 
nope looks like the arm the slave pushes is broken. so trans has to come out. oh boy. that's not going to be expensive or anything haha

 
nope looks like the arm the slave pushes is broken. so trans has to come out. oh boy. that's not going to be expensive or anything haha
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Huh Ive never heard of that happening. Sorry to hear it. You dont want to do it yourself?

 
nope looks like the arm the slave pushes is broken. so trans has to come out. oh boy. that's not going to be expensive or anything haha
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yowtch! that's an unusual failure...you haven't subjected your car to "enthusiastic driving" have you?! :angel12: That abuse voids ALL warranty.guarantee. stuff ya know.

Rad and I pulled clutch MC and brake MC from his donor RS tonite....if'n perchance ya still need those particular bits.

 
nope looks like the arm the slave pushes is broken. so trans has to come out. oh boy. that's not going to be expensive or anything haha
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yowtch! that's an unusual failure...you haven't subjected your car to "enthusiastic driving" have you?! :angel12: That abuse voids ALL warranty.guarantee. stuff ya know.

Rad and I pulled clutch MC and brake MC from his donor RS tonite....if'n perchance ya still need those particular bits.
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Have you ever seen a broken clutch fork? If RS forks are similar to my sti that seems like a tall feat.

 
RS's run a stamped steel fork. I've sold them quite a few times, may even have one in stock. But I'm sure you can't wait to dig right in!

 
it came with the car, but it has a yellow pressure plate so maybe a act or a exxedy stg II. and you can see where it was digging against the housing so its been cookieed probaly since i bought the car, prob when they installed the clutch. i broke the same peice on my saab and people said the same thing "you broke what?" i haven't decided if im gonna try and fix it my self or not. it would need to be towed i cant do it in my drive and i dont have the time or the place or the help to do it anytime soon, so im thinking im just tow it to evergreen and have them fix it. and start selling organs to finance it. that's at least a 5 hour job at a shop. so not cheep. hopefully its just that. luckly i have awesome friends and i have a car to drive for a few days. i would seriously be cookieed with out you guys helping my sorry ass out all the time i really aprecate it!!!

so well see how it goes should be back in fighting form soon enough!

 
Our best guess is that the fork was not installed correctly and has been rubbing on the side where it comes out of the housing. You can see where it has been worn a notch in the side. So the reason his clutch has been so hard it not the clutch but the fork. Instead of moving the fork it's been bending it as it gets stuck in the notch. Seams like it just couldn't take the bending any more.

I wish i had the time to do it at my place. We've been so caught up in racing and race car maintenance that we need to get caught up on life (and truck repairs :dontknow:).

But we'll do what we can to help you out mike.

 
Kinda caught me at a bad time with the garage thing. I wouldnt mind letting someone use it but I have everything piled in the middle because I am wiring it for lights and outlets.

 
got a quote from evergreen one day and 500 later with a new aligmnent later and ill have it back. fair enough. now i just have to find a way to get it there haha

 
luckly i have some awesome people who look after my sorry ass, borrowed a flat bed and its at the evergreen lot right now should have it back in a few days!

 
cars back. clutch is still weird. evil thinks im nuts, but clutch engaged at the very last posible bit of the travel and the clutch was slipping which it never did before, the thing always held like a bastard when i got it back. so i adjusted the clutch pedal down and it stoped slipping so bad but still engaged high. i adjusted it back down again a min ago and it grabs about in the middle like it should but doesn't feel like it engages the clutch fully. once it grabs it feels like it keeps that same pressure in the pedal all the way up to the top it doesn't get light again once it grabs.

so what say you?

clutch is junk and slipping and i need a new one? it's an ACT clutch and the car only has 74k on it, so the clutch must have MUCH less then that. i don't know when it was installed or how it was drivin before i owned the car and they didn't look at it while the tranny was out so i can only guess at the condition.

or is the clutch fork not installed corectly and not letting the clutch fully engage? i can't imagine since it's one of those things that it's either on, or wrong theres not a lot of room to screw it up.

the hydo system is failing

or what peter will vote, im just being to LOVING stupid about this raisin, and just just learn to drive around it. and eventully buy a new clutch when that one stops working all together. haha

 
HeY Akina -

Just joined the forum. My girlfriend found this thread. For what its worth, i have a stock 06 WRX with 48K on it and i just had the exact same thing happen. the dealer said the fork sheared right in half and i had no warning or anything. had all the same issues with pedal sinking to the floor and everything you wrote.

And if it wasn't for my highway commute and my mileage i would still be under warrantee. Not sure what is going to happen, i plan on taking it up with Subaru cause the car isn't even three years old yet.

I saw that the last post was in July.......has anything ocurred since then? noticed anything with the slave cylinder or the bearing assembly?

My biggest worry isn't the huge bucks its going cost to fix. Its like your last post - its that i'm going to fix it but something else is going to be out of wack due to the bearings, the pivot, or the slave or something.

Thanks for your time,

jared

 
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