one thing that kept my clutch from disengaging at one point was a metal reinforcement piece broke off from the friction disc, and lodged itself between the pressure plate and the friction disc, keeping it pressed up against the flywheel

 

Damn, that sounds surprisingly like my problem. I hope not.

 

^
But if that happens, im guessing you can hear awful sound from outside no?

Sorry man, I can not think of anything.

 

nope, no sounds at all in my case

the piece that broke off mine was this piece:


it sits outside one of the 4 springs, looking from a side view:


here you can see where the piece came from


if you look closely, you can see where the piece was digging into the PP


anyway, yeah, it got stuck in there, keeping pressure against the friction disc, in turn keeping the disc in contact with the flywheel, meaning it never wanted to disengage. made for un-fun shifting

 

I think I should have mentioned at some earlier stage that I am running the Exedy Hyper Single.

 

So i'm guessing that it stuck there so didn't make a noise? Am i guessing it right? If it is...that's kinda scary tho. When i broke my pilot blushing it made awful sound but it was easier for me to find a problem tho.

 

Auss2000,

Maybe this can help you little bit?
http://exedy.co.uk/techinfo/howto_trouble_eng.pdf

 

Thanks Chef.

No it doesn't make any noise. And if it did and it meant pulling the transmission off I would be quite sad.

 

^ no problem man...good luck man...I'm sure it isn't major issue tho.

 

Good luck.

FWIW, a piece of metal on my Integra clutch disk broke off. It held in one of the springs in the disk. Sometimes, I could shift normally; other times the pedal fought back and I had to shift without the clutch. I couldn't figure it out until I took the transmission off. I know this isn't what you want to hear.