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if your car's clutch is slipping then stay tuned, because today I'm going to show you how
to replace a clutch on your car, now this Mazdas clutch has been slipping
for a while, but now when you put it in gear, it doesn't even move when you give
it gas, it just sits there, it's slipping so bad, so it's time to put a new clutch
in and here we go, so the first thing we do is jack it up in the air, stick it up on
jack stands, do both sides to get it nice and level,
then we crawl under the car, and since this is a rear-wheel drive car, we got to
remove the driveshaft, and in the case of this Mazda, this big
bars is in the way, so we have to bolt that off first, then you take the bolts off the
back of the driveshaft, and grab the end of the shaft, and pull it out of the
transmission, and move the backfiring off so the transmission has room, with that
out of the way, when we on both the transmission we'll be able to slide
back, so we can get to the clutch, but before we do that we got to get the gear
shift out of the way, so we'll take the son of console piece out, get rid of the
screws all around pull it up, after we take all the screws out, we unscrew the
gearshift knob, then the whole assembly pulls out of the way, then you just remove the
three little bolts in here, and then the gearshift knob just pulls out of the way,
then we'll go back under the transmission and unscrew the speedometer cable here,
then pull it out of the way, so it doesn't get in the way, and now comes the
fun part, we got to take all the bolts off on a
transmission that bolted it to the engine, and some of them are real stinker
positions, but with enough persistence you can get all the bolts off, and you
also have to unbolt the clutch slave cylinder here, and move that out of the
way, and before you drop the transmission put a drip pan under the back, because fluid
will drip down from the back of the transmission where the driveshaft was
taking off, now transmissions are pretty heavy, so put a jack under the bottom of
the transmission to hold it in place while you slide it off the engine, and
now that we've slid the transmission off, here's a clutch assembly in here we'll
just on bolt it, in this case the six bolts holding the clutch on, you take all
six off, then just give it a few taps of the hammer a big screwdriver,
and out it falls, as you can see on the old clutch disk, it wore right down to
the rivets, as you see here, the new one the rivets are real deep, that's how much
thickness has worn off on the old one, now whenever I replace a clutch, I buy a whole
kit with all the parts, including this cute little alignment tool, to align it
back in right, it's the best deal, buy the whole kit, don't buy one or two pieces, the kit
comes with everything including a little pilot bearing that goes inside here the
hammer in, and it comes to the new throw out bearing instead of this old junkie one that's all
worn out and doesn't move much, it just slips on the end of the yoke of the
transmission, and even comes with this little pack of grease, that you put a
little bit of grease inside the splines, so it slides on better, now the only
trick you have to remember is, the side with a lump in it faces the transmission,
and the flat side in the front, faces the engine, otherwise you'd put it in
backwards, now some people will resurface the flywheel here on the engine, but this
one doesn't have any grooves in there, and it's really smooth, so I just leave
it alone, they're very expensive, and in a small car like this, they can last as
long as a car, then you slide the clutch alignment tool with a little clutch
disk in place, so it's set in place correctly by the tool, then the clutch
plate fits right on the top and bolts back on, then you slide the transmission in,
and it might take a lot of wiggling, then put some big bolts on, to hold it in
place while you jack the rest up, then you slide the drive shaft back in the
transmission, then you bolt the drive shaft to the rear end, then after you
bolt all the bottom in, put the gearshift lever back in and bolt in, bolt it in
place, and then screw the gearshift knob back on, then Jack it up and get rid of
the jack stands, let the car down, and start her up and take for a spin,
so the next time your clutch starts slipping, why not replace it yourself, and
remember if you got any car questions just visit the Scotty Kilmer channel.