[ScosyGissiok]

Well it's a long story and won't go right into the details of what happened because it would be a rather long read so long story short my clutch is pretty stiff and allot harder to use then normal clutches. It's been like that since I bought it and have gotten used to it. Yesterday when reversing out of my mums drive way I crunched the gears when shifting into reverse. I thought it was an error on my part so did the natural thing and put it back to neutral and tried again making sure the clutch was hitting the floor. Well it crunched again.

The clutch however did not feel any different then it normally does until later on that day when I went to get some Chinese and my clutch just suddenly felt completely different whilst driving. It became kinda shaky like something was about to break and it wasn't as stiff. Though I was still able to change gears without any problems I did my best to not change gears as often and drove slower and took longer time before shifting (normally I would shift to 4th gear at 50km/h but I shifted to 4th at 60km/h and took my time getting there by accelerating slower)

Anyways I took a further look today and when the engine is off the clutch feels fine. As soon as the engines on the clutch would become shaky. I can hold the clutch in and shift between all 5 gears without hassle but when shifting into reverse it crunches every 2 out of 3 times (Doesn't always crunch). When I release the clutch the engine sounds fine, when I push the clutch in the engine changes tune and it's like you can hear a kinda clacking sound. Problem is is that it's not always like this as when I turned the engine off and back on the clutch felt fine and no difference to when it's normal but 10-20 seconds later it just changed again.

So was wondering if someone could point out where the problem could possibly lie. I'm really hoping the clutch isn't going out on me because it would cost a ton of money to fix (roughly $1000 I've been told) and I would be better off just buying another car as I'm not paying for something that expensive when the car itself only cost me $1500. Especially considering I have rego to pay next month which will cost another $900.