Re: [DMCForum] Clutch woes

[Ryan Wright <ryanpwright@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marc, you are the man.

My flywheel is 0.750 inches thick from front to back on the outer
ring. The difference between the inner and outer rings - as best as I
can measure with the little end rod on this caliper - is ~0.020
inches. Which, funny enough, ends up being about 0.50mm. Sweet! I
think that means there's nothing wrong with my flywheel.

OK, so here's my plan of action, please clarify if I'm wrong:

- Light sandpaper to the flywheel & pressure plate.
- Bolt it back together, use loc-tite on the pressure plate bolts
- Keep tightening the pressure plate until it's solid up against the
"pegs" on the flywheel

Then put the rest back together and pray. I think the pressure plate
not being as tight as it should be was the problem. I mean, the bolts
were tight when I took it off, but since this is the first time I
remember hearing, "keep tightening until..", I can only assume I
didn't do this properly last fall.

Hopefully this fixes it. If not, well, I can pull a transmission in
only a few hours now - with much of that time spent carefully getting
the car up onto four tall jack stands, taking my time so as not to
kill myself attempting something so foolish. With a proper lift & my
tools handy I think I could pull a tranny in an hour assuming no
unexpected problems like siezed bolts, etc. (Oh, and that time doesn't
include those rotten metal shields. I left those off. They were hell
getting off, virtually impossible to get on, not incredibly useful
that I know of, so they're sitting in a box for the rest of eternity.)

-Ryan


On 6/12/05, Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just took a measurement, the flywheel is 0.50mm
> thicker where the clutch disk goes..
> 
> However, (I should have told you to look for this when
> you took it apart!!) If this is the first time you
> have done a clutch, you may have not tightened the
> pressure plate to the flywheel.  When you put the
> bolts in, the will feel tight at the point where you
> start to compress the springs.  You have to KEEP
> TURNING the bolts until the pressure plate meets the
> flywheel.  At that point, the fingers on the pressure
> plate (where the TOB rides) will stick out much
> further than they are with the spring relaxed.
> 
> Is it possible the bolts were not tight, and the
> spring was not compressed?
> 
> 
> 
> --- Ryan Wright <ryanpwright@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Quick background: I replaced my clutch last fall.
> > Replaced most
> ><SNIP>
> 
> 
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