I would over do it. Someone mentioned in an earlier thread that you shouldn't fill it up with grease

 

i assume u meant would not?

 

One or two short shots with spray lithium grease won't hurt anything. If you are a bit over zealous and hose it down with spray lube, you risk getting grease between the clutch contact surfaces, and the clutch will slip until it burns the grease off.

 

Ups - yep, I meant don't over do it.

 

I spray white lithium grease into the hole onto the bearing from time to time when it starts singing too much. it works great and I have 120k on mine (stock clutch). do a search, this has been discussed numerous times on this board.

tape the red straw to the can though so it doesn't shoot off into the bell housing. I usually do this with the engine running and my wife standing on the brake. then I lube the contact between the slave push rod and the fork.

 

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/show...t=clutch+noise

 

Just did it! My True Value hardware didn't have the spring, they recommended going to a Napa Auto Parts store. I did, and they had the # 70 for about $5. I got home to throw it in and realized I didn't have any metric tools. Well thanks to the good descriptions and pictures I was able to just pry off the old spring and tattered bushings and throw in the new spring without taking apart a single piece of cover... Granted I have a sore neck and back now, but hey I'm 22, I'll live. Tested it out and works beautifully, thanks for the great idea.

 

Just did this mod, and figured I would add some useful info that was left out.

Apparently all 6 cyl Tacomas (don't know about runners) use the torsion spring, and a 4 cyl Tacomas use a linear style spring. So I just ordered the spring from a 4 cyl, and it looks just like this spring used in this mod, only black. Took me less than 3 minutes from start to finish, just popped out the torsion spring with a screwdriver and hooked on the new one. So that bracket probably was made for a linear spring to be attached. If anyone has a pic of a 4 cyls clutch return spring, post it up to compare.

Pedal does feel a bit stiffer at the bottom, but not much. But it is significantly stiffer to push in by hand. However, it feels about the same as without the spring at all, so I guess the torsion thing does actually reduce the pedal effort required. Some day, I may pull the whole thing out, and put the torsion back in, with a new bushing. But not today...

 

I just did the spring swap tonight. Like some of the other folks, I wasn't able to find the #70 spring. Instead I used one of the earlier suggestions and bought the spring from Napa. As shown in the pics below, you get two springs per box. It cost me $3.22. I chose to go with a length of 5.5". So far it's great. It creates a noticeably stiffer pedal but NO MORE SQUEEKING! That squeeking was driving me absolutely crazy.

 

I've been driving around now for 8 months with NO clutch pedal return spring. The spring inside the clutch master holds the pedal up just fine, and pedal effort is a bit lighter.

 

same as me

no spring and no issues....bit nicer off road too with less pedal effort

 

Thanks bro! Just got done with the spring install. Used a NAPA spring.
Works great and saved me a buttload of cash.

Thanks!

 

I have had the crap clutch bushing replaced in my 00 4Runner twice in the last year. Yesterday, it went again.
I found this thread last night, and decided I was fed up with paying to replace the clutch bushing, so I decided to institute the procedures listed in this thread. Went to Canadian Tire, obtained several replacement springs.
Using a flatblade screwdriver, I popped out the old torsion spring in 5 minutes, and installed the new spring.
Works absolutely perfect, with no noise and better clutch feel!

Will monitor over the next few days to ensure that dosen't change!
Thanks very much to all the people who previously posted and the original designer (Unhappy!), you've saved my sanity!

 

does this work on an old truck?

 

probably just depends on how similar your clutch assembly is to ours. basically its like the clutch pedal is held in at a different angle by a different spring. if you can accomplish this same idea, im sure itll work fine.

 

I found out that 4cyl. Tacomas come with a linear spring for the clutch, this spring can be used as another alternative. It comes with a rubber insert to muffle sound. With this spring in place there is only slight rubbing with the clutch bushing arm, but no noticable noise.

 

just wanted to say thanks to bob and especially unhappy for finding solutions to the squeaky clutch issue. just put a #70 linear spring on there today and its quiet! plus, i like the fact that you dont push it so far and then it gives out (like with the torsion spring). with the linear spring, there is always a force against my foot and it feels a lot more controlled to me. i love it! thanks guys!

 

A big thanks goes out to the folks who setup and run this site and also the info documented in this thread by taco users. I have a 2000 tacoma, and I have dealt with this issue now for the 5th time. I like the truck and the toyota name but man this had just aggrivated the he11 out of me. Within 6 months of buying this truck new, bushing fell apart on floormat, Toyota's fix, they sprayed a boatload of grease in there, that fixed it for a couple days. Then they replaced bushing. 10 months later, crumbled, then they replaced pedal assy. 9 months later crumbled, different dealership, in a different state and they said the clutch pressure plate was way out of funk, so they replaced pressure plate, disk, tob, and pedal bushing, (cool). 6 months later, crumbled, dealership said that last install might of installed bushing incorrectly, so they greased and installed new bushing. This last bushing lasted 18 months, a week ago, crumbled. I had had it with this problem, moved to different state and the local dealership here is pathetic at best, I waited 5 hours for them to actually get around looking at the truck and to guess that the spring might be chaffed which is causing the bushing to wear out prematurely. Yea, right. Not to mention now my extended warranty just expired and they squirmed around about how my truck is out of warranty and they would need authorization to do any repair, even though this problem has been ongoing since 6 months since new.
Bottom line I found this site a week ago and determined that if I don't hear of Toyota telling me there was an engineering defect in this design and a new part was modified to correct this issue then I'm done. So I ordered the spring for a 95 4runner and of course the dealer ship here in northern FL didn't have it but they got it in that night so I went in next day and got it, popped out old torsion spring (note: I saw and felt NO burring in spring where bushing rides, suprise suprise), installed 95 4 runner spring, and squeak, and grinding gone, finally a fix after 4.5 years.
Thankyou thankyou thankyou,

 

I just decided today to get around to doing this-so I just came from looking under the dash and guess what-my '99 has no spring on it at all. Apparently the previous owner must have complained about it at some point and Toyota fixed it by removing the spring b/c he had everything done at the dealership. So, I've been driving around for almost 4 years and about 40k miles w/o a spring at all. I never really have liked the pedal feel, so I'm gonna try to locate a #70 spring today.

On a side note, my slave cylinder does make some noise sometimes when depressing the clutch pedal.

 

I got a generic carb spring from Autozone today b/c useless True Value was closed as usual. So far so good, pedal feel is slightly better than with no spring at all.