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OK, I think i know every damn componet in and out with your clutches now.. And what hell ive been having, all for a really crappy reason.
After a total of prolly 9-11hrs (and counting) of having my car on the life, the tranny taken out, put in, and taken out, and put back in..
At first, the first time seemed seamless, nothing went wrong (or did it?). Well after finding my clutch pedal to be all "play" and 1 inch of clutch, something was up.. first suggestion by the garage, replace master/slave assembley, a day later, part arrives. unsucessful the owner told me.. F**K! i mean i was pissed and totally out of ideas. So they thought we had a defective clutch, so i was on the phone about twelve times with centerforce describing all the crap that was going on. not much help, so i got my return id number, getting ready to take the clutch back out and ship it away.. meanwhile, the clutch, new and old sitting side by side on the table, and the tranny aswhell. the mechanic quickly hadda help his boss do something, so i was just sitting there playing with my tranny, puttin the fork in and out, same with the TOB.. well to make a long strong short, I noticed that the pivot ball on the tranny that allows the fork to pivot correctly had a bent pivot clip(spring thing), and it wasnt holding the pivot ball in the forks pivot cup, yeah, guess that created more then it sound like. So what was happening was one of two things (or both). The fork wasnt even correctly pivoting on the tranny's pivot ball, which means the pivot ball was not in the forks clutch.. (im trying my best to describe this, even if im not using the correct terms.) so we took some pliers and bent the pivot spring on the fork back in a little, and snaped the fork and TOB back in, right away we noticed that there wasnt as much "jiggeling" goin on. So it was up to me, take a nother 1.5hours ot so to just "Test" and see if my thoery was right.. and thats how they even said it.. "its up to you" obviously they doubted me.
well we put it back in, little more trouble gettin the shaft of the tranny to fit up with the pilot bearing. but nonetheless, it went in, bolted up.. and the moment of truth, is the clutch gunna be there when i tap my pedal.
so he started by using his hand, pushed it down, walked out, said "theres your answer." and he didnt smile or frown, so i didnt know if my answer was good or bad.. :( well so i sat in it, and soon as i pushed the pedal down 1 inch, the clutch was there... alot softer then the stock on, but thats prolly cuz my stock one was old, and the diaphrams were rusted a little..
never thought a clutch story could be soo dramatic eh?
hehe
thanks for listenin
dave
After a total of prolly 9-11hrs (and counting) of having my car on the life, the tranny taken out, put in, and taken out, and put back in..
At first, the first time seemed seamless, nothing went wrong (or did it?). Well after finding my clutch pedal to be all "play" and 1 inch of clutch, something was up.. first suggestion by the garage, replace master/slave assembley, a day later, part arrives. unsucessful the owner told me.. F**K! i mean i was pissed and totally out of ideas. So they thought we had a defective clutch, so i was on the phone about twelve times with centerforce describing all the crap that was going on. not much help, so i got my return id number, getting ready to take the clutch back out and ship it away.. meanwhile, the clutch, new and old sitting side by side on the table, and the tranny aswhell. the mechanic quickly hadda help his boss do something, so i was just sitting there playing with my tranny, puttin the fork in and out, same with the TOB.. well to make a long strong short, I noticed that the pivot ball on the tranny that allows the fork to pivot correctly had a bent pivot clip(spring thing), and it wasnt holding the pivot ball in the forks pivot cup, yeah, guess that created more then it sound like. So what was happening was one of two things (or both). The fork wasnt even correctly pivoting on the tranny's pivot ball, which means the pivot ball was not in the forks clutch.. (im trying my best to describe this, even if im not using the correct terms.) so we took some pliers and bent the pivot spring on the fork back in a little, and snaped the fork and TOB back in, right away we noticed that there wasnt as much "jiggeling" goin on. So it was up to me, take a nother 1.5hours ot so to just "Test" and see if my thoery was right.. and thats how they even said it.. "its up to you" obviously they doubted me.
well we put it back in, little more trouble gettin the shaft of the tranny to fit up with the pilot bearing. but nonetheless, it went in, bolted up.. and the moment of truth, is the clutch gunna be there when i tap my pedal.
so he started by using his hand, pushed it down, walked out, said "theres your answer." and he didnt smile or frown, so i didnt know if my answer was good or bad.. :( well so i sat in it, and soon as i pushed the pedal down 1 inch, the clutch was there... alot softer then the stock on, but thats prolly cuz my stock one was old, and the diaphrams were rusted a little..
never thought a clutch story could be soo dramatic eh?
hehe
thanks for listenin
dave
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