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Clutch Pedal Free Play
- komdan
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The technical book says to leave about 10mm free play until you feel the resistance of the clutch mechanism.
My question is:
What is the free play? is the really just moving the pedal with your finger with very little force? like pushing keyboard button?
because if i press the clutch i need to apply like 1-2 kg of pressure and then and then i feel it gets even harder at the middle of the way it travels. is that point where it gets harder to push is the start of the mechanism?
i wondered maybe in the jimny the free play is naturally siffer.
the brake pedal however has a free play of a keyboard button pressure.
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Please indicate the type of piano and key used for the new wiki article "tuning your clutch pedal movement "
Only joking, but how stiff is "free play" ?
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how do i make a free play? i dont want to make the clutch pedal to be higher than the brake pedal since its nightmare, and the jimny is not comfortable anyway, so i dont wanna make it even worse.
i heard you could release a nut at the end of the clutch cable underneath, however its really tight there and hard to get without a lift. my jimny is stock height. any other way you can create free play without raising clutch pedal?
also , i wanted to mention my clutch doesn't slip or anything no noises, just working normal.
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mickt wrote: Clutch pedals should not be stiff at all.
Stiff was the wrong word to use on my part, but the free play on my Jimny (2009) is not as light as a piano key. If I place my hand on the floor and use only my index finger to press down I can't really move the free play, with an additional finger helping I can move the free play to the point at which the clutch starts to open.
If you look at the pedal box (just looked) it has a big spring to return the clutch pedal to the box stops, this needs to be overcome to feel the free play
Back to adjustment. I believe you can only adjust cable free play from under the vehicle at the clutch end. The pedal hight within the car is a function of stops on the pedal box and should not alter with cable free play adjustment. Not sure the pedal box is designed to allow hight adjustment, but it could be achieved but packing the stop gap with washers etc, its a diy solution.
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have a look at the wiki for more info on a clutch change:
bigjimny.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Clutch_replacement
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Unless your a really heavy set person you should be able to get under a standard height jimny without a garage lift.
Ramps would work as well. Perhaps this is a job for a garage. I tend to find people asking basic questions like this usually make things under a car worse when they fiddle. Are you sure about doing this yourself? Obviously, no offence intended!
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