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.

 

[ynst]

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.

Actually, when I phoned them back in 1993 when I was having the problem they said that the engine rpms weren't sufficient to get the counterweights to begin forcing the plate tighter against the clutch and they recommended downshifting to get the revs up.

My fuel economy was bad enough as it was, never mind having to drive around in second and third gear just to stop the clutch from slipping.

High horsepower and an aluminum wheel doesn't work with a pressure plate designed for a cast iron anchor of a flywheel.

I pulled it out the next spring and never had the problem again. It's still sitting on the shelf in my garage, burned surface and all.

 

[Bird 426]

Surprised that they would say something like that! But I believe you. I've had no problems.