Tamaren

The Manual swap into my 80 is going well, with the only remaining issue being that I have reason to suspect the clutch is seized. From a '79 donor car I pulled the clutch, flywheel, bellhousing, torque tube, transmission, exc. The flywheel, clutch disks, and center plate have good life on them so I was planning on using them. I of course replaced the pivot bushing at the top of the bellhousing.

I have the clutch as a unit right now, assembled. I did not remove the clutch from the donor car originally, but all the components are there, half shaft is greased correctly.

My concern is that for the life of me I can't get the pressure plate to move with a pry bar. I also do not have any 4mm preload spacers in and had no trouble bolting it to the flywheel in the car. This leads me to believe something is seized in the clutch and I need to take it apart and service it. Is there something i'm missing? It bolts in too easy to the flywheel, and when it does, I can't get the throwout bearing arm to move at all.

I apologize if this is confusing. I can of course take pictures if someone wants clarification.

Rob Edwards

If you assembled the clutch pack from individual pieces correctly (front disc/intermediate plate/rear disc/pressure plate/TOB/guide tube) and all the parts are correct, it's hard to imagine how/why it would not at least be possible to lever the release arm rearward. Pictures are worth 1000's of words to double check your installation, and of the release arm mounted on the ball from above, and what the part number on the release arm is.

Pics like this would be a good start:

Wisconsin Joe

If it's assembled correctly, and bolted in completely, the spacers shouldn't be needed. The rivets should be up the little bit that the spacers hold.

Rob's first pic shows the spacers in place. The 2nd shows the gap that should be there when the clutch is bolted down fully.

I thought that getting the clutch pack assembled correctly on the bench was very difficult if the spacers were not in. I could be wrong on that and welcome correction if so.

Tamaren

Well, I think I may of found the problem. Here are some pictures for everyone, but upon further disassembly and actually measuring the clutch disks, they are at 6.5mm each. in addition, one is chipped on the corner.

In it's current state, with the clutch bolted down, the gap where you put the spacers doesn't exist. It's completely flat. The flywheel and intermediate plate aren't grooved or in too terrible of shape, so I think they are salvageable. let me know what everyone thinks though.

I believe I will bite the bullet and go through the clutch, what should I replace while I'm in here? already did nylon bushing and pilot bearing.