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Throwout bearing touching fingers.

padam said:
What did they say about the fly wheel thickness?
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He literally said “Yeah I don’t know what to do with that 1 1/4 measurement you’re giving me, that’s not how we measure flywheels.”

But he did say that it’s an OEM flywheel so it should be correct for the application. That was the one part of my interaction that I really didn’t understand. The guy I dealt with took multiple calls and emails from me all day. He was pretty nice and accommodating. So to end the day with ‘Everything looks right so I don’t know why you’re having clearance issues’ was pretty disheartening. I was really hoping that he would see a big red flag, I’d give him a bunch of money for a new part, and I’d be on my way haha! I’m interested to get that measurement from the back of the bell housing to the flywheel once I get it back on tomorrow.
 
TallGuy71 said:
Well yall. Unfortunately on multiple phone calls today with Brewers the only thing that they saw wrong with my setup was that I still had the over center spring on the clutch pedal. Which would not change anything about me not having any clearance between the TO bearing and the fingers. I took the flywheel off and had it resurfaced today as well. I guess tomorrow I’m going to put it all back together with the new clutch and flex plate we ordered which has a TO bearing that is .05 in shorter and see what happens. I’m pretty discouraged at the moment. Can’t wait to try and get the OC Spring off either. But I did get the proper clutch rod delivered today which should straighten up the Z-Bar linkage once and for all. View attachment 1974043View attachment 1974044View attachment 1974045
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Do you have pictures of the new clutch parts?
 
TallGuy71 said:
He literally said “Yeah I don’t know what to do with that 1 1/4 measurement you’re giving me, that’s not how we measure flywheels.”.............
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Maybe something to consider and compare to.
If I use the 1" dimension in post 107, I believe a STOCK stack up should look such as this..........

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TallGuy71 said:
He literally said “Yeah I don’t know what to do with that 1 1/4 measurement you’re giving me, that’s not how we measure flywheels.”

But he did say that it’s an OEM flywheel so it should be correct for the application. That was the one part of my interaction that I really didn’t understand. The guy I dealt with took multiple calls and emails from me all day. He was pretty nice and accommodating. So to end the day with ‘Everything looks right so I don’t know why you’re having clearance issues’ was pretty disheartening. I was really hoping that he would see a big red flag, I’d give him a bunch of money for a new part, and I’d be on my way haha! I’m interested to get that measurement from the back of the bell housing to the flywheel once I get it back on tomorrow.
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Huh, well they are the experts. But it seems to me that flywheel puts the clutch 1/4” closer to the transmission.
 
padam said:
Huh, well they are the experts. But it seems to me that flywheel puts the clutch 1/4” closer to the transmission.
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Thats what my brain was telling me. If anyone has a flywheel for an externally balanced 440+6 lying that they’d like to take measurements and post, that would be pretty rad.
 
From post 118..
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Till now we were looking at the edge of the flywheel to check thickness... But this picture shows a step... The effective flywheel measurement is probably close to 1".....
 
I have an 8 bolt Centerforce Hemi flywheel I can measure, but will probably be tomorrow afternoon. The thickness is 31/32" I did not measure the crank flange setback in a previous post.
 
70ChargerRT said:
Do you have to rebalance the flywheel after getting it resurfaced?
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A good idea. I didn’t have my OEM flywheel I just got out of the machine shop resurfaced since it appeared to have been done recently. But I had it and a new clutch assembly balanced and they reported the flywheel was out a lot more than they ever suspected - 27.9 grams on the first spin. Good thing was the new McLeod pressure plate was nearly perfect out of the box.
 
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AR67GTX said:
A good idea. I didn’t have my OEM flywheel I just got out of the machine shop resurfaced since it appeared to have been done recently. But I faded it and a new clutch assembly balanced and they reported the flywheel was out a lot more than they ever suspected - 27.9 grams on the first spin. Good thing was the new McLeod pressure plate was nearly perfect out of the box.
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I’ve never balanced a new flywheel with a new pressure plate, maybe I need to in the future but I’ve never had problems. Im running a McLeod RST and RAM Billet Flywheel and its all good but my machinist always rebalanced my flywheels in the past after a resurface.
 
padam said:
Huh, well they are the experts. But it seems to me that flywheel puts the clutch 1/4” closer to the transmission.
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Measurement from the friction surface of the flywheel to the trans mounting surface of the bell housing is 5.72in

The height of the pressure plate to the part of the fingers that the TO bearing touches is 2.95in
 
TallGuy71 said:
Measurement from the friction surface of the flywheel to the trans mounting surface of the bell housing is 5.72in

The height of the pressure plate to the part of the fingers that the TO bearing touches is 2.95in
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Brewers confirmed that the 5.72 is in the area where that is supposed to be.
 
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Okay, there is no recess on the back of my Centerforce flywheel. This flywheel # 090230 ? is a combination 143 tooth ring gear and will accept a 10 1/2" or 11" pressure plate. Again, the flywheel thickness is 31/32 " or about .951 ths.
If they normally have a recess on the block side, someone else will have to help. No stock flywheel here.

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