3 DAYS TIL EVENT, PLEASE HELP! CLUTCH PROB!
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:27 pm
i installed a xtd stage 3 clutch/pressure plate on my car when my sr came in, installed and everything, got the car running, drove around the block a few times and the pedal would engage/disengage the clutch really low like almost to the floor. so i adjusted the master cylinder arm some and ended up blowing the slave cylinder. replaced slave cylinder, moved master arm back some, now having problems getting car in gear at all! so i figured i way overtightend the pressure plate and the forks on the plate were so tight down that the throwout bearing wasnt even barely reaching them.
i redid my clutch and pressure plate and i noticed the forks on the pressure plate were not so low. then reassembled and it still was doing the same thing, so i bought ANOTHER new master cyl (also just replace slave cyl again) and bled the clutch. here's the deal, my car will go into gear sitting still with motor off. clutch pedal is pretty damn soft and doesnt come but only halfway up from the floor. when car is running and i push clutch pedal down and go to put it in 1st, it wont go in gear and the car budges forward as if its trying to engage with the pedal down still. i have a brand new xtd stage 3 pressure plate/clutch, i did not replace the pilot or throwout bearing but im pretty sure they're both find and working. the master and slave cyl are both new and have been bled with no air in line. the bellhousing fork is on the pivot nipple and the clips are on the throwout bearing correctly and slide freely on the tranny shaft. any ideas as to wtf is going on?! the only other thing i can think of is that this XTD off-brand crap clutch/pressure plate is bullshit and i need to swap back to the oem pressure plate and clutch that came with the motor, which are in DECENT condition, prob for sure enough to get me through the drift day.
i redid my clutch and pressure plate and i noticed the forks on the pressure plate were not so low. then reassembled and it still was doing the same thing, so i bought ANOTHER new master cyl (also just replace slave cyl again) and bled the clutch. here's the deal, my car will go into gear sitting still with motor off. clutch pedal is pretty damn soft and doesnt come but only halfway up from the floor. when car is running and i push clutch pedal down and go to put it in 1st, it wont go in gear and the car budges forward as if its trying to engage with the pedal down still. i have a brand new xtd stage 3 pressure plate/clutch, i did not replace the pilot or throwout bearing but im pretty sure they're both find and working. the master and slave cyl are both new and have been bled with no air in line. the bellhousing fork is on the pivot nipple and the clips are on the throwout bearing correctly and slide freely on the tranny shaft. any ideas as to wtf is going on?! the only other thing i can think of is that this XTD off-brand crap clutch/pressure plate is bullshit and i need to swap back to the oem pressure plate and clutch that came with the motor, which are in DECENT condition, prob for sure enough to get me through the drift day.