Clutch is givin me greif

[1987stangman]

Help me here guys. I STILL have the stock clutch in my 87' GT now with 144k on the clock. About 3 months ago the stock quadrant started acting up so before it took a dump I canned it and installed a UPR tripple row and firewall adjuster and a new cable. About 3 weeks ago the clutch started getting incredibly hard to push in so I check the cable and all is ok there. Delt with that untill the the clutch started wanting to grab pretty high off the floor, almost to the brake pedal. I cant seem to adjust it anymore at all even using the top hook on the quadrant. I cant seem to find the cause of the hardness to push in. Cable, everything is good and routed correctly. Is there anything internally in the clutch system that could cause major clutch stiffness out of the blue? release bearing?

 

[dragnazz5.0]

its either the pressure plate going bad or the clutch cable is binding up. unhook it from the clutch fork at the trans and at the quadrant and make sure it moves freely. if all is good there than the pressure plate is on its way out

 

[1987stangman]

its either the pressure plate going bad or the clutch cable is binding up. unhook it from the clutch fork at the trans and at the quadrant and make sure it moves freely. if all is good there than the pressure plate is on its way out

Thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned it in my post that I did unhook the cable and test for any stiffness or binding. The clutch does not slip so I did not suspect a failing pressure plate. I had the clutch fork cover off today and had my son press the clutch in and it sounds as if there is some sort of stiffness inside the clutch somewhere, almost a sound of someting needing lubrication mabey but thats were the binding starts, at the fork, inside the bellhousing.

 

[gunmetal5.0]

This is off the wall but maybe the pilot bearing( throwout bearing)? Maybe the fork somehow got behind the pilot bearing so it's hitting the clutch sooner? Hmmm.