clutch and belts...and AC
 

ok...my clutch works but it has issues...sometimes the clutch sticks when i let off and that is what i hate most, other times it just dont catch and the gears grind...that is the clutch...but my belts are pissing me off, one of them keep sqealing, i tried to tighten them and loosen them, they keep squealing...and my final prob is my AC... without my AC runnin, i idle at about 850-900rpm...but when i hit the AC i am at about 550-600 and my oil light comes on, even stalls on me sometimes if i let off the gas... any help would be great, thanks

RE: clutch and belts...and AC
 

doesnt this sound like a crankwalk story... sticky clutch, low oil pressure at idle...
what year is your car?

RE: clutch and belts...and AC
 

its a 92 6 bolt.. i heard the 1gz dont get crankwalk

RE: clutch and belts...and AC
 

its really rare to happen, clean the IAC out,
change your oil and keep that 5w30 piss water out of it.
im sure its got some miles on it by now so thin oil will do that when an engine gets older
is it a stock clutch? maybe the rubber hose from the line to the slave cyl is collapsing inside., or try adjusting it up and bleed the old fluid out.

RE: clutch and belts...and AC
 

ok, stupid question, whats the IAC stand for?? and, yes it has 5w30 in it but it just got changed and the car only has just over 160k on it. And about the clutch[&:]does the mitsubishi manufacturers only make stock clutches?? the person who sold the car to me said it had a stage 1 clutch, but when i changed my rear main seal i took off the cluth and it had a mitsubishi emblem on it

RE: clutch and belts...and AC
 

ok, about the belts [:@]The belt i thought was continually squealing was the alternator belt... i thought.. but today i was driving home and was almost there when i lost all power steering and a couple lights lit up on my dash, my Alternator belt snapped off.. so i went and bought a new one and put it on, when i noticed the sound is coming from up around the power steering pump, but it sounds more like metal squeaking then belts... please tell me my power steering pump isnt about to blow...:(


also, anyone have an idea on why i am idling so low and the AC makes it worse??

RE: clutch and belts...and AC
 

Yeah its normal that the A/C would do that.... that **** just happens. What i would suggest is having your alternator tested for its output.
My brothers Lotus sometimes stalls when its cold and you turn the A/C on... soemtimes it stalls when its cold anyway lol.

What i do with the belts.. is i carry a can of WD-40.. i dont give a rats ass what anyone says... i spray them just enough to stop them squeeling.. i did it and 3 years later.. on the original belts... nothing broke. So go ahead and do that.

The clutch may be just a sticky mechanism. You will have to get your ass down in the footwell and check out whats going on there... and lube it up. If its not that then i would recomend checking your clutch reservoir levels.. if those are normal... maybe your master cyl is going... but first .. clean and lube the mechanism.

RE: clutch and belts...and AC
 

ok bro, everything you said sounds possible, ill check it, but as i said, it isnt the belts squealing it sounds like the shaft in my power steering pump, i htink it might be dying... i might be wrong though it didnt squeal this morning.. thnx though

RE: clutch and belts...and AC
 

Well that wouldnt sound like a belt squeeling... would sound like a pump dieing.. and thats a horrible sound

RE: clutch and belts...and AC
 

ok well the power steering pump was squeeling, not any more, now the damn alternator belt will not stay tight for ****, and it is squeeling..