Re: [DMCForum] Clutch woes

[Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxxxxxxx>]

I posted the photo last night...

Is it possible you installed the clutch fork wrong?? 
Did you put that little clip behind the pall pivot, or
in front?

--- Ryan Wright <ryanpwright@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Unfortunately I did not take any pictures; my wife
> has a few somewhere
> of the car in pieces, but I know the flywheel won't
> be in there
> anywhere because it went from the car straight to
> the store, then
> straight back onto the car a day later.
> 
> So, I bled the clutch tonight. Unfortunately, it
> didn't make any
> difference. Also, there's a new noise - sounds like
> a very slight,
> difficult to hear metallic scraping. This noise
> varies with engine RPM
> and comes from the transmission area. It's so quiet
> you can't hear it
> over the exhaust standing at the back of the car,
> but from within the
> car it's there; I leaned down next to the car,
> reached in and pushed
> on the gas pedal, and I could hear it much better.
> Definitely coming
> from the clutch/transmission area.
> 
> The noise doesn't change whether the clutch is in or
> out. Doesn't
> change whether I'm in gear or neutral, moving or
> stopped. I can
> vaguely hear it at all speeds. It does go away at
> idle.
> 
> The car still moves no problem. I've been driving it
> to work the last
> few days and the clutch is not slipping or anything.
> I've driven cars
> with clutches so bad you had to feather the engine
> to keep moving -
> clutches that had literally only a couple of miles
> left before you
> were stranded - so I know what that feels like, and
> my car isn't in
> that situation (yet?).
> 
> Any more ideas? I mean, I can pull the transmission
> again, but I don't
> know what I'd be looking for other than checking the
> flywheel (let me
> know when you can get that picture, Marc - that
> would really help).
> I've got half a mind to just take it to someone else
> and let them fix
> it. I don't really want to deal with it again
> myself. 'course, I might
> not get the car back in one piece... that's my real
> worry.
> 
> On top of all this I still have to fix that stupid
> "glug glug" noise;
> I've got a lot of great ideas from a lot of people,
> but I don't know
> enough about the fuel injection system to put most
> of them into
> practice. I really wish I lived close to a good
> DeLorean mechanic in
> times like these... somewhere I could drop my car
> off for repair when
> I get tired of fixing it myself.
> 
> -Ryan



            
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