At 03:00 PM 8/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>First off, I want to thank all the people who responded to my first post.
All the
>suggestions helped a lot. We now have the transmission bell housing
nearly flush to
>the engine. There is about a credit card sized gap in the lower right side.
>The question I have now is this. With the transmission so close to the
engine, is
>there any possible way the splines aren't locked? I can still spin the
output
>shaft of the transmission. Is it possible the clutch is somehow
disengaged? We
>drained all the fluid from the clutch system, but that shouldn't disengage
the clutch
>or should it? The only thing I could think of is I might not be fully in
gear.
>I'll mount the gear change assembly and bounce through I few gears when I
get back home,
>but I'd like to entertain some other ideas.
>
>Andy L.
>'70 Spit - with a '67 Spit in her garage space...
Andy,
If you have all the parts in there, you should NOT be able to spin the
trans output shaft. The only real possibility is that the transmission is
NOT in any gear. Check that.
The fluid in the clutch system, disingages the clutch.
(Why the "credit card gap"? Is there some resistance to closing that gap?)
Tom Howard
'72 GT6 (and a good bit of USA iron)
Lakeside Union School District
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