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Originally Posted by ZMEnow
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. |
It started as a slight decline in power in the higher gears, then eventually became a problem with first gear as anytime I would stop at a light or a stop sign it would take an extra second to move. Then got to the point where I would have to rev for 5 seconds or so to finally start to move. At that point I parked it, planning to drive it to the shop, then it wouldn’t move anymore.
Neither clutch disk looked bad enough to cause as serious of a problem as I have. I plan replace the clutch while I have the tranny out, but want to see what other ideas people have so I can cover all bases and hopefully not have to drop the trans again.
I do not have a lift unfortunately.