Ok, still having problems with my clutch. The problem: Won't fully disengage from the flywheel so you can't shift gears. It's a brand new Southbend TZ clutch, the flywheel has only been machined one other time so this would be only the 2nd time it's ever been resurfaced, the TOB is a brand new SHONUT Ceramic unit. My mechanic said this: When everything was put back together, the car drives fine. BUT, after you pull up on the clutch pedal to have it self-adjust the quadrant, THEN the clutch will no longer disengage. We changed out the quadrant with a brand new one, it STILL does the same thing. The fact that the car drives fine without the quadrant adjusted makes me think that there should be nothing wrong with the clutch/pressure plate. I also looked at the trans with the TOB installed while it was all sitting on a stand off of the car, you can tell there's nothing wrong there ALTHOUGH the TOB wiggles ever so slightly on the sleeve that it sits on, but my mechanic says that is absolutely not the problem. What else can be going on here??
Stupid Clutch!!
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not sure if this could do it, but look on the cable just before it conects to the arm on the trans. there should be a white collar thing there. i have heard of some people missing that somehow. not sure that it could cause this, but it may.
Ishodu
SHO Member
How much pedal travel are you getting? I know my adjuster is shot I have to adjust the thing manually or I loose a lot of pedal travel. (I should fix that soon)
dstig1
New Member
Well... if the clutch seems to be working and properly adjusted as is, why pull up on the pedal repeatedly (especially if you know it throws it out of sorts)? Perhaps the cable is a bit stretched or whatever, but as the old saying goes:
Patient: "Dr., it hurts when I do THIS!"
Dr.: "Then don't DO that..."
Patient: "Dr., it hurts when I do THIS!"
Dr.: "Then don't DO that..."
When you replace the clutch and everything is put back together, you're SUPPOSED to pull up on the clutch pedal till it "clicks" and that is the clutch quadrant adjusting itself. I'm not saying pull up on it "repeatedly", Im saying we're doing what we're supposed to do and it's making it worse instead of better. However, I dont think its the clutch quadrant at fault because its brand new, we replaced it thinking it might be the problem.
SHOracer14
Me-0 Diffs-6
I'm sure you have already checked this but I am speaking from past experience. Make sure there is nothing hanging up the the clutch cable or fork under the hood. I noticed one day that my clutch felt kinda hard to engage so I tried to adjust it and it got all screwed up. I inspected under the hood to find that the fork had grabbed part of the wire harness and was impending my clutching abilities.
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