Clutch engagement

How far from the floor should the clutch engage? My 99 Tacoma engages bout three inches off the floor.

 

might need to get out your magnifying glass, didn't realize how small the print would be, oh well

 

My clutch is brand new and it engages pretty high off the floor, not very far from where the pedal is fully up...I've heard that you can adjust it to 'bite' closer to the floor (sounds like what the diagram above is for)

 

You can most def get it to bite closer, I adjusted mine to engage just over an inch and a half off the floor ( staying above the FSM spec)...most people immediately stall the truck who haven't driven it... but its how I like it, great for stop and go and crawling offroad. I took out the stupid squeaky oem clutch spring and replaced it with straight spring, theres a write-up somewhere on here on that, and that made my shifting experience awesome...added the URD short shifter and I've been in stick-shift heaven since

 

Yeah I'm taking my truck back in to Toyota tomorrow morning because after they put in my new clutch, now my cruise control doesn't work and the clutch pedal sometimes 'sticks' when returning about halfway up and I have to pull it back up with my foot. I'm betting the two are related (cruise control won't engage if it thinks the clutch pedal is being depressed). Anyhow, I think I'll ask them to adjust it so it bites closer to the floor since I do a lot of rock crawling in my truck and it's not so easy to feather the clutch when you have to let it out almost all the way.

 

Dude, I was gonna say..I know you'd love the closer bite especially with the SC!! Yes the cruise control is directly related to the clutch pedal...theres a little module and button that gets depressed when the clutch pedal is released, if its out of adjustment that little button wont be pushed in and voila, no cruise. Hope they get that smoothed out for you

 

Thanks man, I hope so too...they've already looked at it for a whole day and told me that they are baffled and that it has nothing to do with the clutch pedal...f'in amateurs. I'd take it elsewhere but I want them to fix it for free since I'm convinced they were the ones that messed it up when putting in the new clutch.

 

Your right about that. If they did the new clutch, they better know how to adjust the dang thing after sounds like all pedal adjustment issues to me, dont let them off the hook

 

My truck rattles around so bad sometimes that with the cruise on the clutch pedal moves killing the cruise so the above statement made me laugh ^^ Doesn't happen enough to really annoy me but its a Oh crap! moment when it does.

@eon_blue did you ever get the shifter heat issue sorted?

 

Well...eventually the clutch started to go out entirely and that's when I discovered that the shop that did the work had put it in backwards. After a huge headache and massive expensive repair bill from Toyota to put in an OEM clutch, the issue has pretty much resolved itself. It still gets pretty warm, almost "hot" once or twice, but not anywhere near as scalding hot as it was when I had the backwards clutch in. Honestly, I think the synthetic Redline fluid I switched over to was the main culprit. Shifting is so much smoother with the Redline fluid though which is nice. Truck went from having the same OEM trans fluid in it for several years to having synthetic put in, I think it was just the nature of the switch over to synthetic that caused the fluid to run hotter than normal. Other than my clutch pedal acting funny, everything else is back to normal now (other than me being out an expensive clutch and a huge bill from Toyota, but that's another story).

Sorry to derail your thread OP

 

haha thats def an oh crap moment...every time mine comes out of cruise it like throws me forward a little hahah

if your ever do get annoyed, its like a 10mm lock nut, then you actually spin the whole module until it closes the button, then retighten lock nut, would take you 15 min or so and thats just getting the lower panel off

 

You shouldn't adjust the clutch where you want it to "bite", you should adjust it to when the clutch pedal is completely released, there should be minimal "play" in the pedal. You want some play though, so you know the clutch is completely engaging when youre not using it

 

Yeah dude, trust me that's a WHOOOOLLLEEE 'nother story. Don't cheap out on getting a performance clutch installed, I learned that the hard way.