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Originally Posted by blvckZL1
Hello all, I made a post awhile back about a manual tranny issue I was dealing with, and wanted to update my findings to see if anyone has any ideas. So my original problem was that I could put the shifter into gear, but no matter how many times I tried to get the clutch to catch, the car wouldn’t move. It would just sit there and rev, I tried multiple times over a week or so with no luck. I dropped the tranny and removed the clutch, but it still looked to have around 40% or so left, so didn’t seem worn enough to not be able to catch at all. I also took the transmission to a tranny shop and they said the transmission itself was sound. I have since held off on this project as it is just my weekend driver, but now that it is winter I will be picking it up again next week for something to do. Anyone have any ideas the could share to help me diagnose the problem and find a solution?
Thanks for any advice.
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Sure you have the driveshaft connected? Seriously there is more to the story than you are telling. The clutch disk are spring loaded and the outer disk is engaged to the flywheel all the time, you have to press the pedal to push fluid to the slave cylinder to push the plunger against the clutch disk springs to lift them off the flywheel. So if you are telling us that no matter what you do the clutch disk won’t engage tells me they aren’t touching the flywheel ever.
Just curious where you driving and then one day you couldn’t get the clutch to engage any more? When you had the clutch out you said you measured the outer clutch disk and thought it had 40% left, what about the inner clutch disk which has to catch the inner pressure plate flywheel. Remember you have two clutch disk.
Do you have a lift? If so when you get the clutch back on the flywheel you can hand spin the crank and see if the clutch’s are rotating with the pressure plate by inserting an alignment tool. Before you go through all that logic says check the slave cylinder and make sure it’s returning all the way back to the trans input shaft against the bell housing. If it’s stuck out you are depressing the pressure plate all the time.