Firm Clutch

[aj81spider]

My clutch has recently started requiring more force to engage. The pedal goes down without excessive force, but it requires noticeably more force than it used to (it used to go down quite easily). I'm going to get under it this weekend to see what's going on, but any advice on things to look for?

[seabeelt]

Cable starting to go? Throw out bearing? Weak fire wall?

[bobplyler]

Also check the pivot point. It's inside the bellhousing.

[aj81spider]

After some delays due to work, vacation and procrastination I looked at the suggestions on this and it appears that the clutch arm has slipped off the pivot point (thanks Bob!).

Now the question of the day is how I get it back on without pulling the transmission. Is that possible? I fiddled with it for a while with no results so thought I would poll the brain trust to see if there is some technique that I'm missing.

Thanks for any help you can provide - having to drop the transmission will cause more procrastination!

[bobplyler]

It's possible to get it back on the pivot without removing the bellhousing, but I did it over 20 years ago, and don't remember the details.

[aj81spider]

To close the loop on this it turned out to be pretty easy to get the arm back on once I knew how it went. There is an old post where narfire posted some pictures. I'd link over to that thread, but the pictures are on Photobucket so you can't see them. With apologies I copied them and show them below.

Once you can visualize the connection it's pretty quick to get it back on.