[6pack] Clutch/transmission Issues

[Chuck Arnold]

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 at 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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Chuck Arnold