Clutch Totally gone

[alex2173]

Hi, I have a 91 sport 5speed. Gradually, over the past four or five days, the clutch had been feeling weird and kinda hard to shift, like the gears were not going in all the way, until it finally decided that it was not moving anymore, (well the car barely moves out of first now)
My dad is gonna help me out with the repairs, he's got all the tools and he's telling me to buy only the clutch disc by itself, not the complete kit. Is this a good move? It's good for the pocket I'm sure, but is it completely fine if I only replace the disc?........PLease help with some feedback........I'd hate to buy the whole kit (around $200) if I don't need it.

Thanks for the help.

 

[JDraper]

BUY THE KIT!!!! If you buy just the clutch disc, you will be re-doing it fairly soon. Best bet is to buy new disc, pressure plate, throwout bearing, and clutch slave cylinder. Also get your flywheel resurfaced.

 

[CodePoet]

Agree totally with JDraper. By the way what's making your 5-speed hard/impossible to shift is either your slave cylinder or master cyliner (most likely slave cylinder). Not your clutch disk. While your in there though replace everything (pressure plate, clutch disk, slave cyliner, release bearing...maybe pilot bearing also). It's just too big of a job to half do it, and you don't want to be dropping the tranny if you don't have to expecially if it's a 4x4.

I just went down this road myself. Had to replace everything including the master cylinder. I know...it sucks but what a difference afterwards!

Later
CP

 

[alex2173]

Exactly what I DID NOT want to hear, but knew it was the fatal truth!.......guess have to do it all......the slave concerns me, gonna have to replace it too.
thanks guys!!!

 

[EXPLORINGVA]

Alex Do it all the first time and save yourself the headache of having to open it up again. I just did mine a few months ago, it's a pain to do it but nothing you can't do yourself. Buy the kit most parts stores stock it, you may have to order the pilot bearing though. Make sure you get one of them because i'll almost guarantee you yours is gone, they're made from s*%t metal. There was a thread on here last week about somebody that got "jacked" from a shop that ONLY replaced his clutch, ended up costing him about $1400 by the time he was done the 2nd time.