My bro is having a problem with his Integra. Help.

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:50 pm

Heres the problem:

When he releases the clutch after he shifted a gear the clutch pedal does not go up. He has to take his toe and pull it back up. I am guessing it could be the shift cable(or it might be hydralic?), throwout bearing, clutch, master cylinder, but I am not really sure though. This is on a 97 Integra GSR with over 170k... He has no idea how old the clutch is.

Any quick input would be great.

Thanks.

biggrobb1995 · Post by **biggrobb1995** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:56 pm

Tell him to follow in your footsteps and buy a SRT-4

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:19 pm

biggrobb1995 wrote:Tell him to follow in your footsteps and buy a SRT-4

Nah, he's a Honda fanboy. He is planning to buy a white s2000 in the future.

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:30 pm

Problem solved:

Floor mat was causing the problem.

DannyBoy · Post by **DannyBoy** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:23 pm

MyNeonSaysHi wrote:Problem solved:

Floor mat was causing the problem.

HAHAHAHA

INVUJerry · Post by **INVUJerry** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:27 pm

HAHAHAHAHA

Amazing. How was the floormat doing it? Pushed up too far against the clutch bar?

fixitmattman · Post by **fixitmattman** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:28 pm

Ironic that with all 5.2 million honda forums out there they come to the neon forum for help

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:03 pm

He came by to me and showed me what had happened. The floor mats are stiff as hell and cover a hunge area unlike the Neon and go up. Well the hard crap that its composed of started to fold and bam the clutch bar got stuck on it.

My bro is never on the internet so I gave it a shot here, since everyone is nice and friendly.

bombtrack07 · Post by **bombtrack07** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:55 am

HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHHAAHA

dammit i spit milk on the monitor

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAA

that shit is too priceless, floormat causing the clutch pedal to stick. you just made my day

TeckNeon · Post by **TeckNeon** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:51 am

Wow...way to think of every possible way to fix it. How old is your brother? Is this his first car? I know I would beat my friends with that little ditty for a good while for something like that. LOL

lambostealth · Post by **lambostealth** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:29 pm

Thread Hijack:

Ok, that was good, mines better.....

My neighbor (18yo still in high school), had a 91 Camry (now my beater), one day it was parked across from my garage, soon it was three days, so I asked him what was going on. He said he needed to save a bit of money for the starter since it wouldn't start. I said, are you sure thats whats wrong with it?? He said, "yeah, thats what my mechanic told me...". I said oh, ok, and left it alone. His mechanic was going to charge him $300 to buy and replace a starter (rip off). I told him it was easy, and that we could do it if he bought the starter.

So he comes by the next day with the starter, we go out to the car to replace it, I tried to start it, and the clutch felt awkward down towards the bottom, like it wasn't hitting anything solid.........looked for the clutch safety switch......it's covered by the floormat, and blocking the clutch pedal from it......Moved floormat, started Camry.

He had it towed over 100 miles because it "stranded him", while he was out of town.

I NEVER let him live it down.

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:56 pm

Wow! Thats crazy.

Good thing my bro found out about it within a hour. Or I would of definately gave him a bunch of shit about it.

Post by **racer12306** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:06 pm

lambostealth wrote:Thread Hijack:

Ok, that was good, mines better.....

My neighbor (18yo still in high school), had a 91 Camry (now my beater), one day it was parked across from my garage, soon it was three days, so I asked him what was going on. He said he needed to save a bit of money for the starter since it wouldn't start. I said, are you sure thats whats wrong with it?? He said, "yeah, thats what my mechanic told me...". I said oh, ok, and left it alone. His mechanic was going to charge him $300 to buy and replace a starter (rip off). I told him it was easy, and that we could do it if he bought the starter.

So he comes by the next day with the starter, we go out to the car to replace it, I tried to start it, and the clutch felt awkward down towards the bottom, like it wasn't hitting anything solid.........looked for the clutch safety switch......it's covered by the floormat, and blocking the clutch pedal from it......Moved floormat, started Camry.

He had it towed over 100 miles because it "stranded him", while he was out of town.

I NEVER let him live it down.

The worst part about that situation is the mechanic said it was the starter.

Time to find a new mechanic.

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:43 pm

racer12306 wrote:
lambostealth wrote:Thread Hijack:

Ok, that was good, mines better.....

My neighbor (18yo still in high school), had a 91 Camry (now my beater), one day it was parked across from my garage, soon it was three days, so I asked him what was going on. He said he needed to save a bit of money for the starter since it wouldn't start. I said, are you sure thats whats wrong with it?? He said, "yeah, thats what my mechanic told me...". I said oh, ok, and left it alone. His mechanic was going to charge him $300 to buy and replace a starter (rip off). I told him it was easy, and that we could do it if he bought the starter.

So he comes by the next day with the starter, we go out to the car to replace it, I tried to start it, and the clutch felt awkward down towards the bottom, like it wasn't hitting anything solid.........looked for the clutch safety switch......it's covered by the floormat, and blocking the clutch pedal from it......Moved floormat, started Camry.

He had it towed over 100 miles because it "stranded him", while he was out of town.

I NEVER let him live it down.
The worst part about that situation is the mechanic said it was the starter.

Time to find a new mechanic.

those are the "mechanics" that i argue with just to make them look bad in front of their peers/boss