'96 clutch advice
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'96 clutch advice
Hey folks, sorry if this shouldn't be here. I didn't see a Drivetrain forum so...
Lessee, '96 Ex coupe, well used before I got ahold to it. Clutch is giving out, still completely drivable but is becoming harder and harder to engage. When disengaged.. [ I may have my terminology backward; by "engaged" I mean with the pedal pushed in, someone educate me there please].. with the trans in neutral and the pedal not pressed something rattles.
The best way I can describe the sound is "oil starved valve train". In fact thats what I thought it was, but a couple of oil changes and leak checks later, (and a "voila!" moment playing with the clutch pedal), and I made the connection.
I'm not sure what the connection actually is however. The car rattles when in neutral with the clutch pedal up... I'm not sufficiently experienced enough to jump up and say that the clutch is definatly the culprit, someone educate me here too please.
If it is the culprit, (and this is the actual question this post was leading up to), what clutch kit would everyone recommend?
Initially the car was intended as a mild project (low boost the D16y8), but that changed as life intervened. I've since went through a divorce and have sole custody of my two little ones
(thank God). She got the truck, so the Civic has to do duty as a uber-reliable baby-hauler, buuuutt daddy still drives like a jackass when the babies aren't in the car.
Plain jane Intake / Header / Exhaust upgrades sometime in the foreseeable future, just for fun, but no real power increase. So... some of you grown up types advise me, replace the stock clutch or bump up to a mild upgrade? (if so, reccomendations welcome), I'm typically an OEM **** with this type of question, and Honda makes the good stuff for sure but I'd like the potential to knowingly abuse it from time to time. Thanks.
-Levi
Lessee, '96 Ex coupe, well used before I got ahold to it. Clutch is giving out, still completely drivable but is becoming harder and harder to engage. When disengaged.. [ I may have my terminology backward; by "engaged" I mean with the pedal pushed in, someone educate me there please].. with the trans in neutral and the pedal not pressed something rattles.
The best way I can describe the sound is "oil starved valve train". In fact thats what I thought it was, but a couple of oil changes and leak checks later, (and a "voila!" moment playing with the clutch pedal), and I made the connection.
I'm not sure what the connection actually is however. The car rattles when in neutral with the clutch pedal up... I'm not sufficiently experienced enough to jump up and say that the clutch is definatly the culprit, someone educate me here too please.
If it is the culprit, (and this is the actual question this post was leading up to), what clutch kit would everyone recommend?
Initially the car was intended as a mild project (low boost the D16y8), but that changed as life intervened. I've since went through a divorce and have sole custody of my two little ones
(thank God). She got the truck, so the Civic has to do duty as a uber-reliable baby-hauler, buuuutt daddy still drives like a jackass when the babies aren't in the car.
Plain jane Intake / Header / Exhaust upgrades sometime in the foreseeable future, just for fun, but no real power increase. So... some of you grown up types advise me, replace the stock clutch or bump up to a mild upgrade? (if so, reccomendations welcome), I'm typically an OEM **** with this type of question, and Honda makes the good stuff for sure but I'd like the potential to knowingly abuse it from time to time. Thanks.
-Levi
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