Clutch issues/adjustment

[Chip DeBruyckere]

Hey all,
1991 integra LS 5 speed

Over the summer I replaced clutch, flywheel, pressure plate, throwout and spring with a Luk kit then had to go back to school and had to leave the car at home (current project car) till i just got home for break. I have been trying to fine tune the clutch adjustment and have noticed that 1. the shift fork is very tight but peddle soft. 2. even after adjusting like in erics cable clutch video i cant get the car to shift. 3. if i really wrench up on the cable and screw the nut down far enough i can get the car to shift without clutch but not with it. This was all done while engine was running. Any thoughts?

Also side note, any possibility Luk use a different bolt pattern on pressure plate because I was left with 2 extra bolts and all bolt holes filled on the PP.

Any help is much obliged

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[Gary]

[quote=”barneyb” post=122255]To the OP: I’m pleased to hear you got it working. Even if you don’t finish the car you know you did one job right.

“Ah I see. That’s right the 1st gens didn’t have that problem, it was the second gens if I remember right. Never heard of the autos walking but it doesn’t surprise me.”

The 1995 and up car engines were very bad. If it crank walked and Mitsubishi fixed it, it crank walked again. If they replaced the engine with a new one it crank walked again. The only solution was to scrounge up an early engine and install it. There was no love from Mitsubishi. And yet in the end they fixed whatever was wrong with that engine. The car I drive has the same engine and is without issue.[/quote] Engine design flaw clearly. Thank you for the info barney!
To the OP: Sometimes that’s all it takes. Good to hear its sorted out regardless of whether you are selling the car or not.

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