Posted by Josh on Thursday, May 06, 2004 at 4:31PM :
In Reply to: Re: Fly wheels posted by MoparNorm on Thursday, May 06, 2004 at 4:04PM :
I don't know if I explained myself correctly, what I'm experiencing is a rough clutch engagement and a gearbox chatter while the transmission is in neutral, clutch out, and the engine is idling. If I push the clutch pedal in to the floor then the chatter stops. The linkage is adjusted to the furthest extent possible and it seems that all of my adjustment has gone away (I've run out of bolt!!) trying to make the chatter stop. It was not adjusted like this even with new clutch from the motor rebuild.
The clutch gets extremely hot and jumpy engaging and disengaging in heavy traffic, and I used to drive it a 100 miles a day in the heat, and I don't have a heavy clutch foot, so it used to get a little warm in traffic but absolutely nothing like this. It has actually killed the motor in traffic trying to get it engaged, sometimes the transmission won't shift out of gear, I have to let the clutch out, and push it in again...
It's very strange, I can't tell if the transmission is out of alignment... I highly doubt it because everything lined back up perfectly when I put it together?? The rear main doesn't leak. But something is really warped or definitely out of alignment. The weird thing is I had not one problem bolting it back togther, nothing was crooked all the bolts went back in fine??
Any suggestions? I'm thinking that maybe the throwout bearing fork inside the bellhousing is cracked or bent?? and not extending or disengaging all the way, and I also noticed upon inspection of the reassembled bellhousing that the throwout bearing fork is crashing into the front of my transmission??? Any suggestions? I've run out of options aside from tearing it apart and starting over.
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