Clutch Chatter

[mockingbird812]

Good to hear Bill. Man - look at all the USEFUL help you got here. THAT is what I'm talkin' about!!!!!!!!!!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/[/img]


Bet you can't wait to hit the road with this bad boy, huh Bill?!!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

[PeteLeathersac]

As Rick mentioned, check Pilot bearing/bushing when trans out also best check trans front bearing play too.
Does a new Pilot come w/ the kit?
[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]
~ Pete

[Rixls6]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: PeteLeathersac</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
As Rick mentioned, check Pilot bearing/bushing when trans out also best check trans front bearing play too.
Does a new Pilot come w/ the kit?
[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]
~ Pete </div></div>

The car had a brand new pilot bushing, and the trans was a fresh rebuild by Crash.
Regardless, I would replace the pilot bushing again while it's opened up to get at.

[Xplantdad]

Bill, get 'er going...so you can bring it out to Pavilions on Saturday [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[earntaz]

As Rick mentioned, check Pilot bearing/bushing when trans out also best check trans front bearing play too.

X3

[SS427]

An easy way to get the bushing out, insert grease behind the bushing and a little around an old input shaft on the bearing surface if you have one. Insert the shaft all the way in and using a rubber mallet, hit it a few times and the hydraulics will push the bushing right out. Works great.

[Bill Pritchard]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SS427</div><div class="ubbcode-body">An easy way to get the bushing out, insert grease behind the bushing and a little around an old input shaft on the bearing surface if you have one. Insert the shaft all the way in and using a rubber mallet, hit it a few times and the hydraulics will push the bushing right out. Works great. </div></div>

Outstanding idea, Rick, thank you very much. I do indeed have an old Muncie input shaft that I have had laying around for 30 years or more, and I finally get to put it to good use! I was planning to use it for the clutch installation anyway.

As Rick P. says, he installed a new pilot bushing when he replaced the clutch last fall, and it doesn't have 30 miles on it, so I seriously doubt that there are any issues with it.....but they are so cheap and relatively easy to replace that I think I would be foolish to NOT do so.


Thanks again for all the helpful advice here, guys.....as Sam indicates, this place rocks!!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/youguysrock.gif[/img]

[earntaz]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SS427</div><div class="ubbcode-body">An easy way to get the bushing out, insert grease behind the bushing and a little around an old input shaft on the bearing surface if you have one. Insert the shaft all the way in and using a rubber mallet, hit it a few times and the hydraulics will push the bushing right out. Works great.</div></div>

In GM tech school, there were all sorts of pullers, etc. for various tasks -- we were also instructed on this little trick. With that being said, I have NEVER used a puller on many engines -- pack the cavity with grease, tap on an old input shaft and hydraulic the bushing out.

[Bill Pritchard]

New pilot bushing sat on a paper towel overnight and left zero trace of oil or anything. I installed it and put a very light coat of anti-seize on the inside.


Progress today [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]




More progress....Thanks to several responders in this thread, note the proper positioning of the throwout bearing on the fork [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img] Bearing came from Hays with a light coating of grease on the inside of the collar.




Still more progress....

[njsteve]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bill Pritchard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Still more progress....

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I had to laugh when I saw this photo. I can't tell you how many times as a teenager I tried the old &quot;put a baggie on the tailshaft to catch the gear lube&quot; trick...and got deluged by a waterfall of gear lube when it filled the bag to capacity and then popped it. Oh, the folly of youth.... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]