PP/flywheel

[Bank of SHO]

As some may remember, I replaced the clutch, refreshed the tranny, and added a Fidanza flywheel last summer. The Fidanza came with six dowels installed. I ground-off the wrong ones and installed. Car was VERY difficult to shift in all gears.

Did clutch job a second time, and found out the correct dowels were not seated all the way and caused some warping. I ground those down per Southbend clutch's(Eddie) advice. Shifts are much better than before, but not at all acceptable into 1st from a stop. It will ease into first while coasing to a stop at around 10mph.

I suspect the Fidanza inserts were permanently warped and intend to return the flywheel. Do any of you think the pressure plate was damaged as well? Only have the 500 break-in miles on the car since the last job.

Thanks.

 

[RStalveyARFF]

you should have been able to pull the wrong dowels out by vise grips and some finesse. I suspect you damaged the flywheel by grinding them.

 

[Bank of SHO]

Actually I cut them off with a Dremel as they would not budge a bit. There were just a few minor scratches on the surface which is not part of the disc contact area-just cosmetic. I was very careful.

 

[Bank of SHO]

Bump.

So is it likely the pp is damaged too?

 

[masho95]

The pressure plate is probably fine, but I would question the clutch disc. If the disc was trying to mate up to a warped insert it could have also damaged the disc.

 

[Bank of SHO]

Thanks. I didn't even consider the disc. Would a problem be obvious, or is there a proper way to check? It seems the slightest deviation causes problems with a clutch setup.

 

[masho95]

I don't know of a procedure for checking the disc. But assuming that the flywheel was warped and that the disc comes into direct contact with it I'd wonder if the disc was warped because of that.