Clutch does not disengage????

miguels3000 · Jul 14, 2003

I posted this in another forum but I think it was a little too advanced Hope I get more responses here.
Hey whats up everybody,
Just need a little help here, I just got my tranny rebuilt and a quaife installed in it, A friend and I just installed the trany and alluminum flywheel, act 2600 w/street disk, b&m short shifter well this is mainly it along with other small stuff. My friend and I installed the tranny then I just finished the job. Well the car starts really nice and sounds great, I have the car liftedon jack stands, 97 gst eclipse fwd,

I try to put it into gear and it wont go. I step on the clutch pedle and move the shifter to the left and it wont go up into 1st gear, it doesnt grind but it wont go, I tried accelarating and then shiffting but nothing. the tires are not moving. Then i turned the car off and I put it into 1st gear then started the car while in 1st gear and the wheels started turning before I let go of the clutch pedle. Then it wont go out of 1st gear
My best guess is that the clutch is not disingaging, I checked my slave cylinder and it had oil but could that be causing this. I know its bad and I am getting a new one with a master cylinder but could this be it. and I did bleed the clutch.
Any Help Is Greatly Appreciated.
Thanks,
Miguel
I found a master cylinder for $46 and a slave For $32, Are these good prices?

Tevenor · Jul 14, 2003

I am moving this for 2 reasons.

1) This is not advanced.
2) If you would organize your thoughts so they were readable, maybe you would get more of a response in the correct forum

Thread moved.

Now on to topic:

3 things to check
1) Make sure the clutch fork is actually attached to the pivot ball. If you don't know what either of those are, get a manual.
2) What was the step of the flywheel? Did you check it before installing hte ACT?
3) If you know the slave cylinder is bad, replace it and then try again. Guesstimating diagnosis while a known bad part is still in the loop is just throwing everything on a wild goose chase.

miguels3000 · Jul 14, 2003

Okay thank you for moving it to the right location, just that as I read some of the questions in this forum they seemed to be very basic and I tought some people wouldnt know what i was talking about. I re worded some sentences, I dindnt want to go to much into detail since i tought people would understand if they had done this already.

If the gears goes in once the car is off wouldnt that mean the clutch fork was on the pivot ball. Im a newbee at this just asking. I will check it if I have to separate the tranny from the engine.
I did not check the step on the flywheel since I bought the combo from RRE, Act 2600 and Aluminum Flywheel. Should I have?
You are right, I will fix the master and slave cylinder first and then return to post my results, I hope that is it. Just tought this might have happend to someone else and could help.
Thanks for the reply
Miguel

4pistons · Jul 14, 2003

If the gears goes in once the car is off wouldnt that mean the clutch fork was on the pivot ball

With or without pushing the clutch pedal?? With the engine off and NOT pushing the clutch pedal the clutch fork does nothing. If you did push the clutch pedal and it engages properly I would say the clutch fork is in its proper place. It sounds like a flywheel step, master / slave cylinder, or adjustment problem.

Rick - '91 GSX

madmax · Jul 14, 2003

Easy things first, make sure your clutch pedal is adjusted correctly. If your not familiar with how to do this, do a search or go to Vfaq, there are several articles.

miguels3000 · Jul 16, 2003

Okay, I picked up the master and slave cylinder, since i know the slave is leaking oil, i got the master as well. The problem is going to be the fork and pivot ball, I found it on roadrace page, my fork is hitting the inner bell housing and was forcing my slave and master cylinders. im dropping the tranny and putting everyting back on hopefully by friday. Ill post back with the finished results. Thanks for the post.

http://www.roadraceengineering.com/clutchandflywheeltech.htm

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