sr20det clutch doesn't seem to engage

[toledo240]

I still have found no answer. My car will not accelerate if i let it idle a little bit. it started acting up in stop go situations where i couldn't go into boost and 2500rpms to 3000rpms are needed for it to move out of 1st gear.After norrowing my problem down, it seems to do this when i let it idle after driving and boosting it.after letting it sit three minutes of daily friving it will start acting up, and will not move unless at 3500 rpmsanother 5 mins of idling it wont move unless at 6500 rpms?Another observation was i put it on the freway and from 2 and 3 gear would catch full boost all the way to redline, then swtching to the 4th gear it will slip at 5000rpms. but letting it at a contant speed at a constant rpms the boost will come back into every gear.Its weird because i can drive it fine until this point f time.someone told my transmission needed to be adjusted??some say throw out bearing but it never grinds going into gears?some say my clutch is fried but i dont ever smell it?

[IvoryJ30t]

the throwout bearing wont cause the car to grind gears unless its not fully depressing the clutch.

if you hit the gas and the revs rise but the car doesnt accelerate [slipping clutch] then the clutch is not holding, fully explaining the whole boost thing.

first off, adjust the clutch. i dont know the procedure, so your gonna have to find it.

there should be free play in the very top travel of the pedal. for instance, when the clutch is up, push on it with you hand/fingers. there should be at least an inch of travel that requires very little effort, after which the clutch should stiffen up.

if there is no free play at the top, the clutch is out of adjustment, and must be corrected before you destroy the throwout bearing.

if there is play, and the clutch slips when warm, then your in for a new clutch.

[toledo240]

there is a little play, I would n't aan inch though little more like half that. my clutch is brand new though, this really sucks!! Doesn't the clutch have some kind smell to it?

[IvoryJ30t]

the clutch smells like burning brakes when its slipping badly under load.

if its only slipping under certain conditions and you do not continue to slip the clutch, for example- if it slips on the highway, and you back off it, you very well might not smell anything.

with your symptoms, i would suspect the clutch first. is the SR flywheel supposed to be stepped?

im thinking that the clutch was installed improperly, or the flywheel was not machined, or machined improperly.

[IvoryJ30t]

lets see if someone who is very familiar with the SR clutch will chime in and give their diagnosis...

we need an sr expert to say if the clutch needs to be redone.

[s13sr20chris]

i would not profess to be an sr expert but i will say that you should check the stuff you can before buying a new clutch. wait till the problem is happening and then pull off the slave cyl to make sure its not activating the clutch.

other than that your problem would have to be inside the bellhousing.

[toledo240]

the pedal actually has no play in it. i looked at it again today and the rod that goes into the slave cylinder from the pedal is barely in the braket it it there by one thread basically.I couldn't figure out how to adjust it???How would i know im not activating my clutch by pulling the slave??the flywheel was resurfaced but im leaning that my clutch is going wrong. i drove it today without any traffic on the freeway and i was fine. I drove almost half tank of gas. but once i stopped at the exit and stopped an go after 10 light it started to do it. sometime it feels like my diff isn't going smoothley it rattle my car violently!

[s13sr20chris]

you let out the clutch and car shakes as you are letting it out? mostly at starts when motor is warm? thats a flywheel thats out of flat. they may have done a lousy job of resurfacing or you may have warped it by overheating.

[toledo240]

the car shakes when i have that problem accelerating. i let out the clutch all the way and give it gas and it would start doing it. Not while im disengaging it.