WOT vibration... and hard shifting...

[SASHO91]

Whenever i go WOT, i get a vibration. As the rpms climb, so does the intesity of the vibration....im not talking about a dash rattling vibration... more of a noticable vibration... that i can feel through the car...
also, whenever i try to shift, lets say, 1-2, i try to shift, but, i cant get it into gear.... i have to wait for the rpms to drop down to under 3k IIRC....
But it does it in all gears... but only at more than 1/2 throttle... under that, she shifts fine....

Could there be something loose, or something that worked its way loose? I mean, i did push her fairly ******* the run, but not THAT hard....

Im going to go jack her up, and see if anything is loose or not...
also, could this have something to do with my rod shifter, breaking? and then fixing it? i can feel the vibrations through the shifter as well....

any ideas, guys? TIA...

 

[bily00idol]

I had the same trouble but the self adjusting clutch finally tightened up. still have some vibration in the clutch sometimes....

 

[SASHO91]

i wonder if i strechted the cable....... s*** i really dont want to replace that dam clutch cable....

Im going to go try and re adjust her and see if that helps....

I need that spacer that tony makes for the quadrent, that way that thing will saty set, were i want it to be.... the bad thing is, is that it is a new quadrent assembaly...
maybe i did strecth the cable....

 

[SASHO91]

hmm, anyone else got any ideas?
im going to try to rig somthing up to hold the quadrent up....
i went under the car, and couldnt find anything either....

anything else i could look for guys?

 

[SHOtimer]

anything else i could look for guys?

..an ATX

Doug

 

[SASHO91]

thanks doug.....

i wouldnt mind a ATX with a shift kit, and it would have to be rebuilt, and have to come with a 3.2....

I searched for this, but really couldnt find anything, that resembled my problem....

 

[SASHO91]

BUMP!!

hey guys... this really sucks..... i cant stretch her legs any more..... well i can, but i can only granny shift her....
anything would be helpful.....

 

[SASHO91]

ok.... bump again.... i know that this has happened before to some one else....
if you could point me in the right direction guys.....

 

[masho95]

i try to shift, but, i cant get it into gear.... i have to wait for the rpms to drop down to under 3k IIRC....
But it does it in all gears... but only at more than 1/2 throttle... under that, she shifts fine....

Don't try to shift while on the throttle...

 

[SASHO91]

i never shift while on the gas......
but when im at WOT, and i try to shift... i have to wait for it to drop down.. way, down....

and its hard to get into gear, even at that low of rpm.....

 

[masho95]

i never shift while on the gas......
but when im at WOT, and i try to shift... i have to wait for it to drop down.. way, down....

and its hard to get into gear, even at that low of rpm.....

If it's in all gears, it's something clutch related.

 

[SASHO91]

the clutch isnt slipping....
its holding great.....

just up in the rpm's, she starts to vibrate.... could a bolt have backed out. i torqued everything to specs though....
could the engine do something like this?

 

[SHOtimer]

the clutch isnt slipping....
its holding great.....

That might be the problem. Your clutch might not be fully releasing when you push it in, which would be causing the higher stress at higher RPM's, high enough that it wouldn't allow you to shift.

Doug

 

[masho95]

That might be the problem. Your clutch might not be fully releasing when you push it in, which would be causing the higher stress at higher RPM's, high enough that it wouldn't allow you to shift.

Doug

Exactly...

 

[SHONUT91]

Is their any grinding while trying to find the next gear or downshifting?

 

[SASHO91]

yes, there has been a couple times, when she grinded... not bad though.... just a tap...

i noticed last night that it will do it when i just rev the motor up as well....

could that be becasue of a stretched cable? and could it have anything to do with my recent rod shifter incedent?
thanks for the help guys... seems like we are getting close to the problem...

 

[SHOtimer]

i noticed last night that it will do it when i just rev the motor up as well....

That proves it. Your clutch is not fully releasing. This could be a stretched cable, or misadjusted one. Or you need to tear it apart.

Doug

 

[SASHO91]

tear what apart??
im gonna go see if i can adjust her all the way back... and see what that does...

 

[SHOtimer]

tear what apart??
im gonna go see if i can adjust her all the way back... and see what that does...

Well, if it isn't a clutch cable problem it is a mechanical clutch problem. Which would mean tearing the clutch apart to find the problem. Pulling tranny.....

Doug

 

[SASHO91]

^$%^$% ^$%^#$%^$& $@%!@#$^&*^&#$@
dam. i really dont want to pull that trans again..... f***
im going to go drive her and see, if the adjustment that i just did help any... if it did, which im hoping it did... i need to get ahold of tony, so he can make me one of the braces for the quadrent....
dam this sucks....