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Just stopped and took a look at the clutch in my Prelude. Same typical broken off spring retainer on my clutch disc. This makes the third time for three different vehicles and same symptoms.

I have to disagree with you AJ. It most likely is a bad clutch. I have a long unfortunate history with these occurrence. First my 93 GS_R, which I had bought brand new, had a piece of the clutch disc break off (typical spring retainer issue). This piece would circulate around, and occasionally find ...

I switched to mobil 1, but I see no advantage. I am switching back to Quaker State.

Power assisted brakes require engine vaccum which is stored in the brake booster. Eveverytime you step on the brakes, you cause a drop in engine vaccum utilized by the brake booster.

Actually, pumping your brake pedal several times causes a drop in intake manifold vaccum. That causes the fuel injection to compensate for momentary low engine vaccum, thus raising idle speed.

If your engine is cold, the power steering fluid is much thicker than when it is warm. The power steering pump has to work quite a bit harder too move the thicker fluid. 4 cylinder engines don't make a hell of a lot of torque a idle, therefore any extra temporary loading will cause the idle to drop ...

Less power steering boost.

I believe the reason for this is emissions related. The idle is kept high while leaning out the fuel mixture to lower emission. When the throttle blade slam shut, the fuel mxture is still very rich. This is checked during a smog test. Here in Massachusetts, the cars are accelerated on a dyno at a ce...