When that happened to me it turned out to be a dead nose piece (bearing
retainer) on the tranny. The throwout bearing wore a notch in the nose
piece which hung it up. It eventually wore all the fingers off my
pressure plate also.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590
(More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)

slakker wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently purchaced a 93 Jeep Wrangler, 4 cylinder with a 3 inch lift
> and 31" tires. Problem is that sometimes (about half the time) when I
> try to push in the clutch I feel a lot of resistance, I find myself
> lifting off of the seat b/c I am pushing so hard to get the clutch down
> in order to shift. Sometimes it is hard to push all the way down and
> sometimes it will be hard and then just break loose all at once. And
> then sometimes it just shifts like a normal transmision would
>
> I have curbed the Jeep untill I can fix it but since this is my first
> Jeep ever and I'm not really that much of a mechanic, I was hoping
> someone could steer me in the right direction.

 

When that happened to me it turned out to be a dead nose piece (bearing
retainer) on the tranny. The throwout bearing wore a notch in the nose
piece which hung it up. It eventually wore all the fingers off my
pressure plate also.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590
(More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)

slakker wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently purchaced a 93 Jeep Wrangler, 4 cylinder with a 3 inch lift
> and 31" tires. Problem is that sometimes (about half the time) when I
> try to push in the clutch I feel a lot of resistance, I find myself
> lifting off of the seat b/c I am pushing so hard to get the clutch down
> in order to shift. Sometimes it is hard to push all the way down and
> sometimes it will be hard and then just break loose all at once. And
> then sometimes it just shifts like a normal transmision would
>
> I have curbed the Jeep untill I can fix it but since this is my first
> Jeep ever and I'm not really that much of a mechanic, I was hoping
> someone could steer me in the right direction.

 

When that happened to me it turned out to be a dead nose piece (bearing
retainer) on the tranny. The throwout bearing wore a notch in the nose
piece which hung it up. It eventually wore all the fingers off my
pressure plate also.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590
(More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)

slakker wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently purchaced a 93 Jeep Wrangler, 4 cylinder with a 3 inch lift
> and 31" tires. Problem is that sometimes (about half the time) when I
> try to push in the clutch I feel a lot of resistance, I find myself
> lifting off of the seat b/c I am pushing so hard to get the clutch down
> in order to shift. Sometimes it is hard to push all the way down and
> sometimes it will be hard and then just break loose all at once. And
> then sometimes it just shifts like a normal transmision would
>
> I have curbed the Jeep untill I can fix it but since this is my first
> Jeep ever and I'm not really that much of a mechanic, I was hoping
> someone could steer me in the right direction.