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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 04:04 PM
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Default C5 LS7 clutch install problems, HELP!!

I can't seem to get the pressure plate into the bell housing when
the clutch disk is installed...

I keep hitting the alignment pins when I push the pressure plate up
into the belling housing.

I'm sure it's something I'm doing/not doing but can't figure it out...

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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 04:54 PM
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Some have reported tapping the dowel pins a little deeper into the flywheel.
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Some have reported tapping the dowel pins a little deeper into the flywheel.
Sounds like a GREAT fix!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 06:42 PM
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Some have reported tapping the dowel pins a little deeper into the flywheel.
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Just this weekend I put an ls7 clutch setup into my 99 C5, and i had the same problem, so i screwed the bellhousing bolts out about half way so i could pull the bellhousing out a little more, and it worked without a problem! But it was a huge pain in the butt to get to the bolts, took a good hour to get all the bolts far enough out.
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Old Jun 23, 2008 | 09:18 PM
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We drove the alignment pins to the bottom of their holes and everything went together... So why don't they push them in all the way??

Oh well, she's finished and on the road...
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