Clutch Install...
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As for the pilot bearing... Did you feel like you had to FORCE the shaft into place with the c-clamp? If everything is aligned right it should just slide into place (it took me and another guy the better part of a half hour to get this right...). If you forced it you very likely damaged the pilot bearing and it would be a lot easier to check it out now than it would to start from scratch in a couple weeks... Just a suggestion.
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St. Jude Donor '07
Everything is put together and running great. No noise, all seems to be running great.
If things change, I will post up how jacked up I am.
Micah
If things change, I will post up how jacked up I am.
Micah
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I appreciate all of the recommendations, suggestins, comments and "you are going to regret" remarks. Problem with this all is, everyone has "their" way of doing it and we did the c-clamp method. I am really hoping that everything just played friendly and we are going to be fine, but that will only be determined this afternoon when we start it up and drive it. I am doing my car in a couple of weeks and I already know that I am doing some things different.
If you have to use 2 hands and a pipe extension on the c-clamp, then it's not lined up and you're gonna damage the pilot bearing or crack the cast aluminum bellhousing or torque tube.
If you're just using the c-clamp to gently guide the input shaft in while working solo, you're fine. Not all of us have competent help available. To be honest, the hardest part of that operation was getting the splines lined up. Once I got past that part it all glided together easily.
Dope
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St. Jude Donor '07
Yes, exactly. Everyone has their own way of doing it, there is no single "right" way. The c-clamp method is fine, it's what I used to do my clutch install guide something like 8 years ago. Car is still fine so obviously it's a legit method. You just have to use common sense.
If you have to use 2 hands and a pipe extension on the c-clamp, then it's not lined up and you're gonna damage the pilot bearing or crack the cast aluminum bellhousing or torque tube.
If you're just using the c-clamp to gently guide the input shaft in while working solo, you're fine. Not all of us have competent help available. To be honest, the hardest part of that operation was getting the splines lined up. Once I got past that part it all glided together easily.
Dope
If you have to use 2 hands and a pipe extension on the c-clamp, then it's not lined up and you're gonna damage the pilot bearing or crack the cast aluminum bellhousing or torque tube.
If you're just using the c-clamp to gently guide the input shaft in while working solo, you're fine. Not all of us have competent help available. To be honest, the hardest part of that operation was getting the splines lined up. Once I got past that part it all glided together easily.
Dope
Thanks again everyone for chiming in.
