Little late now, but one thing I have learned to do [through having
not done and wishing later I had] was to test the clutchwith the drive
shaft disconnected. Should be able to put the car in gear, put the
clutch in and rotate the rear of the tranny [indicating the clutch is
working]. Never put it all back together without doing this test.
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Hunter, Darcy <Darcy_Hunter@instron.com>
wrote:
> Aggravating day on Saturday. As an update, during the winter, I pulled my
> transmission and had it rebuilt by John at Quantum Mechanics. While he was
> in there, he added an OD which I was very happy about. Reinstalled and all
> was very good for about 200 miles. All the issues I had about grinding
> during hard shifts were gone. Suddenly, shifting started to rapidly go
> downhill. Started by being difficult to shift from 3-4 and degrading to
the
> point where getting it into first or reverse was almost impossible. On the
> way home on Friday, I had to turn off the car and start it in first or
> reverse since getting it into gear was impossible.
>
> So some investigation had me under the car and while my daughter pushed the
> clutch, noted that I had about 5/8" of travel at the slave cylinder. All
> seemed fine there so the obvious answer was a clutch fork pin. Ordered the
> parts and pulled the transmission on Saturday. Had the unit on the bench
in
> 2 hours 15 minutes. Very proud of myself until I investigated and found
the
> clutch fork pin to be OK. Not Good!! Then removed the pressure plate and
> clutch disk looking for who knows what, all seemed OK. Looking for great
> insight. Please help.
>
>
>
> Darcy Hunter
>
> '73 TR6
>
> North Easton, MA
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