Clutch rebuild Options

[the_jaydog]

Hello All. This is my first post so please forgive me if this question has been asked elsewhere. I searched and didn't see anything that answered my questions exactly.

I am a pretty busy guy and my wife and I only have two vehicles. I have a 95 Celica ST with a manual trans and it has the 1.8 in it. For starters the motor runs like total crap as far a power is concerned but that is another issue. The clutch has become the more important issue right now. I have known it was going out about a year ago but wondered how long it would hang in there. Well...a year. That's about how long.

At any rate, on to my questions. First, I'm not new to auto repair. I know that sometimes on older vehicles 3 things will break while you are fixing one. Are there any parts on my particular Celica that I should repair or replace while I have the clutch out? I have honestly never worked on a standard transmission before but I have a cousin that is helping me and he is well versed. I'm just afraid something will either be broken when I take things apart, or something will break while changing it and then get a comment from some genius like, 'hell, I could have told you that". I'm just not really in the mood, lol. Aside from that, having to wait 2 weeks while something ships from BFE.

Thank you so much all.
Jason

[Smaay]

you can get a clutch from the 2000+ GT celica. the 7A uses the same one. im pretty sure the TO bearing is the same as well. as for the seals, im on the side of leave it alone if its not leaking.

I have a guide on here to pull the engine, several of the steps are the same for pulling the trans. I dont think i made a guide for changing the clutch. I did write one for the 7th gen. it might help you too

http://www.newcelica.org/forums/showthread.php?t=334603