Topic: Tacoma Clutch Pedal Stiffnes

[LA_Fred]

After about 25k miles, my taco clutch pedal effort became quite heavy, I mean like legpress heavy. The dealer replaced the entire clutch pedal assembly and that helped a bit but it still felt heavy. Figured it would break in w/ time. At 65k, felt even heavier but then was out of warranty and Toyota said I needed a new clutch at $1000+, No way, they should've changed the clutch back when I had the original prob. Lesson learned: Never trust the dealer. 

So here I am at  87k miles w/ a stiff as hell clutch pedal that requires literal leg press power to press down and hold. Compound that w/ LA traffic and its a pretty big bummer. I figured the spring in the pressure plate was always bad. Anyone else had this same problem?

LA_Fred

[88Rokyoat]

When my throwout bearing went out the pedal was "harder" to push in, but not too bad. Around here you can pick up a complete clutch assembly for around $200. and it only took my a few hours to drop the tranny and replace the clutch. I would never bend over at the dealer... 

[ROKTOY829]

Check the bushings in the spring. It's up in the dash were the pedal mounts to the firewall. Could be your problem.

[Yota87Truck]

My clutch petal was super tight when I bought my 98 tacoma with 155K miles.  I thought it was my clutch hydrulics and replaced all them and then I thought it was the bushings on my clutch petal which were also worn.  Then after I fixed that the next day a piece of my pressure plate broke off in my bell housing and started rattling around.  Pulled off my transmission and replaced it with a marlin crawler clutch and now my clutch petal is so easy to push it feels like nothing.

[Natasroffrus]

My 96' has a relatively stiff clutch, but no leg press... If I were you I'd first try servicing the clutch pedal assembly(replace and grease the $20 or so worth of little bushings, maybe the spring if it's cheap, then bleed the system). Don't forget to check to make sure the slave cylinder(attached to the tranny) has grease on it's plunger where it contacts the clutch fork. Here's a link for servicing the pedal assembly. http://www.lieblweb.com/tacoma/Mechanical/ClutchPedal/ClutchBushing.htm If that doesn't work, replace the cylinders, if that doesn't work, you just wasted your money on parts that probably would have lasted the life of the yota.

[emsvitil]

Just match revs and shift without the clutch.........