I had clutch cable gritch and a squeaky clutch pedal. Last night I decided to finally WD40 the spring behind the pedal that was making all the noise. I squirted the spring time and time again to no avail. I decided to squirt the clutch cable right above it- that solved it! The clutch cable itself was squeaking. And you know what? That solved 80% of my clutch gritch as well. If you think you need to replace your clutch cable due to gritch/general nastiness, try and spray some WD40 on the cable inside the car behind the pedal first. It may help.

cool thanks going to try that latter today :)

always wondered why no one has ever lubed it. before I replaced the clutch cable on my samurai i ended up putting some lube(grease gun lube i think) on the little "bearing" type thing that hooks on top of the clutch peddle. Helped a ton. Then again on the samurai i didnt believe in spending tons of money till i got in that wreck. would love to have another one...

Silicone spray works great as well. My motorcycle friend has a nice tool that attached to the clutch cable, you spray into a hole and it shoots lube way up the cable. Worked wonders.

Originally posted by Ben92SentraSE-R
try and spray some WD40 on the cable inside the car behind the pedal first. It may help.

I am having the same problem since I installed my JWT clutch. I will try it soon but will probably use some teflon type lube becuase WD40 tends to disappear over time. It is also a cleaner you know.

yeah I had that problem a little while back....it went away after the clutch cable snapped in half. :(

I am having the same problem since I installed my JWT clutch


YEah same here. I put a new C Cable in after X-mas and installed my JWT clutch last month. Gritch just started back up last week.

Ben did you lube the part that has a round piece that actually hooks on the pedal?

Mine has a slight pop right before it engages.

remember gritch isnt always the cable. if replaceing the cable doesnt help it go all away its the throw out bearing.

It was REALLY good for about two trips and it started to get nasty again. I will remove the cable and try and grease whatever I can get to. If that doesn't work I have another spare cable from shumax's car that probably in much better shape than mine is.

yeah, i had the same problem with my parking brake cable. if you want to do it the right way, take the entire cable off and clean/lube it really well. i had like probanly an Oz. of brown mucky stuff come out of the cable whn i did this. works great now though!

Originally posted by Its311Pete



YEah same here. I put a new C Cable in after X-mas and installed my JWT clutch last month. Gritch just started back up last week.

Ben did you lube the part that has a round piece that actually hooks on the pedal?

Mine has a slight pop right before it engages.


Excuse my mouth, but holly shit! That's EXACTLY what I have on mine. After Ben helped me install my JWT/2001disc and new cable it started to "pop" almost at the top of the pedals travel.

I used some wonder-lube that has teflon in it. That solved it 90% of the time. The clutch grabs great and doesn't moan, so I said forget it. If you ever find out what makes that "pop" let me know.

Curt B. Shumaker

Excuse my mouth, but holly shit! That's EXACTLY what I have on mine. After Ben helped me install my JWT/2001disc and new cable it started to "pop" almost at the top of the pedals travel.

If I ever find a solution bro you will be the 1st. one to know.
I greased up everything and with a clutch cable that is only 8 monthes old I can only wander what could be the root of the problem??

hope Jim Wolff didn't produce a bad lot of Pressure Plates or something.

Originally posted by Its311Pete


If I ever find a solution bro you will be the 1st. one to know.
I greased up everything and with a clutch cable that is only 8 monthes old I can only wander what could be the root of the problem??

hope Jim Wolff didn't produce a bad lot of Pressure Plates or something.

Me too! However, I am fairly certain the issues lines from the pedal to the control arm on the tranny. I placed a long piece of pip on the control arm and had my wife operate the pedal. When it made that "noise" I didn't hear it through my pipe. However, if I placed it on the actual cable---then I heard it.

Becasue the clutch operates so well otherwise, I think it's something to do with the way it's connected to the pedal. I am happy that it hasn't happened enough for me to crawl under there and fuss with anymore. I think the lube finally "worked" it's way in. Or at least that's what I'm telling myself:)

Curt B. Shumaker

Cables these days are nylon lined. Trouble is the cable rusts which wears out the nylon and you get the sticky juddering cable syndrome. WD-40 may help (I use it myself for this problem) but it's not a real cure. If you haven't got one of these motorcycles pumps then taking the clutch lever end off, raising it high and dribbling WD-40 down it is almost as good.

Well yesterday I replaced my clutch cable with shumax's old one he left at my place (used) and a used, but good throwout bearing from someone else's car who did a clutch job here and my clutch pedal action is 100% perfect and smooth. Oh how I love it. :) I also reased the heck out of the throwout bearing before I put it in. Since shumax had a new clutch cable and new throwout bearing I wonder how much of his gritch has to do with the fact that I didn't grease the throwout bearing. :( Good news about that though- You don't have to drop the whole tranny to change out the throwout bearing. I disconnected only the bellhousing bolts, shift linkage, clutch cable, and tranny motor mount and moved the tranny about 6 inches away from the motor while having the tranny on a floorjack and I could get up in there just great. No speedo cable removal, no connectors to disconnect, didn't even drain the tranny besides what came out when the passenger axle came out of the tranny due to moving it away from the motor. Have to take the driver's axle out of the hub but you can leave the passenger side there. I did remove it from the support bearing so I could move the axle away a bit so I could place it carefully inside the tranny myself after re-mating the tranny to the motor.

Maybe there is a lot in greasing the throwout bearing in preventing clutch pedal gritch? :(

i tried it.. it works!!! shooting wd-40 into the clutch cable behind the pedal took away all the squeky sounds...

[i] I wonder how much of his gritch has to do with the fact that I didn't grease the throwout bearing. :( Good news about that though- You don't have to drop the whole tranny to change out the throwout bearing. :( [/B]


Well, like I said above. It really hasn't presented itself as a problem and I am very happy about that. I will also say that my pedal feels no where close to what yours felt like that time I was out. Mine has that "pop" sound/feeling like the cable isn't in the bracket good enough. I will also say that it has only happend about 20% of the time now, if that.

I look at it this way----it'll give me another reason to come out and visit you in the spring, Ben:) I am sure as hell not going to attempt that on my own---never mind the small size of my garage.


Curt B. Shumaker

Ben,

Why don't you give us an analysis of the old clutch cable? Whack off the end of it with a dremel and pull the cable out of the sleeve. Post pics if you find something significant.

Let's get down to the bottom of this 'grit'.