Throwout bearing touching fingers.

[gkent]

However, the more they wear the farther the fingers will protrude.

Guaranteed this is NOT the problem !!

 

[padam]

Guaranteed this is NOT the problem !!

Honestly I’ll be surprised if there’s just one problem

 

[TallGuy71]

Honestly I’ll be surprised if there’s just one problem

I feel like it’s definitely more than one. The fork is at such an angle that I can’t even pull it out of the bell housing. It won’t articulate enough to get the tang on the back of it out of the guiding hole (don’t know a better way to explain that) I’ve got everything in place to get it out and now I’m having to drop the aftermarket headers and pipe on the passenger side in order to get the trans cross bracket out. Stopped for dinner and hope to get back out there tonight.

 

[padam]

You can pull the trans with the fork in place

 

[ynst]

That looks like a centerforce pressure plate. They have a lot of clamp force. They shouldn’t slip with street tires.

However, the more they wear the farther the fingers will protrude. It’s possible the lining is completely wore out or stripped off.

My Centerforce pressure plate slipped like hell under load at low rpm.. Going up the hill out of Burlington, VT on the way to the highway, I had to downshift to get enough rpm to get the counterweights to work enough to prevent slippage.

Needless to say, it came out and I went back to the 11" Borg & Beck plate that's been in there since '94

 

[Bird 426]

Then you too had something wrong. If they all did that out of the box, they would no longer be in business.
What's unbelievable to me is that a shop did this, at least that's the way it sounds.