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MidBubSC gave me a reduced price on one of those reduced tension springs for the clutch pedal if I were to write up what I experienced after install. A few weeks ago, I received the spring, but with an unexpected out of town funeral and some other crap that reared its ugly head at the last moment kept me from concentrating on getting this done. But finally made some time today to get a "round tuit".

First, I'm not as young as I used to be and contorting myself to getting under the clutch pedal was a pita. No fault of the spring, just sayin'.

I had a lamp (it's a bit dark under there), a pair of strong needle nose, a flatblade screwdriver, and a pair of channel-locks just in case. I just needed the needle nose and flatblade. I'd probably get an old towel to protect the floorboard/carpet/mat/whatever, from getting grease on it should the spring fall out and hit the floor. I didn't have to, but it's more of an afterthought.

Getting the original spring out was easy. Flatblade just slid inside the outside prongs and a little twist popped them right out. Factory spring is doused in graphite grease it appears, so it wouldn't make noise I suppose. Crap gets everywhere fast, so I advise some shop rags and some nitrile/butyl work gloves. Wipe off the clutch pedal areas where it has some grease. I left it in the saddle because of potential wear point, but I don't think it would matter either way. I did not grease the new spring.

After the old spring was out, I took it for a ride with NO spring. DEFINITELY don't want to go back to stock. It seemed with the stock spring, you're just stepping on a spring loaded pedal and you have to guess where the engagement points are because you can't really feel them. Without the spring, you get the full effect. I kinda like it. A bit tougher to operate, but I kinda like it.

To easily put the new spring in, place the outboard prong nearest the side kick panel in first. Then place the center piece in the pedal saddle. It sorta snaps in. Pretty easy. Then, I hand pressed the clutch pedal to the floor and that allowed the inboard prong closest to the brake pedal to come close to the mounting hole. While holding the clutch pedal down, I used the needle nose pliers to guid the prong into the plastic grommet hole. Boom. Done. Took just a couple of minutes.

Took the car for another ride and it's a bit more assist than with no spring, but not much, and you can still feel the clutch engagement a whole lot better over the stock spring.

IMO, it's definitely worth the trouble. Just a few minutes and it's a little mod worth doing.