I am working on a project that I nearly finished 8 years ago but life got busy and I am finally back to it. It had a rebuilt 8cm with kind of a mystery year 3 speed. At the time I bought a new 9" pressure plate and clutch from speedway and installed them. Trying to test drive it now I notice the throw out bearing can barely touch the fingers when it's fully pressed. You can see i have one photo fully pressed and one foot off clutch. What can I do? Do I need to pull the motor and trans? Is there a work around I can do? Thank you for your time!
Several questions Did/have you adjusted the clutch linkage and free play? Was the flywheel resurfaced? Did you replace the throw out bearing and spring? (They look used.) Did you replace the throw out bearing fork?
When I was tinkering with it today I disconnected the clutch linkage and used a wrench to get the full range of the fork, and that's what you see in the picture. The fork, bearing and spring were not replaced. Unfortunately I cannot remember if the flywheel was resurfaced.
Sorry I don't know, pretty much the whole transmission got pulled out of the car as is and put back in as is.
2 possible problems. My customers call a lot with the type of problem your having which is normally an adjustment problem if everything was assembled correctly. Another is the source of the parts.
Thank you, I was playing with the pressure plate finger adjuster and it did not seem like they could come forward any more. Would it likely be the fork could be adjusted forward? How close should the bearing be to the fingers with the clutch at rest?
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