F1 Stage 2 Clutch Problem .... Please Help ....

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May 19, 2009
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Ok...Before I get to that I’m kinda new here as this is my first Supra. My Supra is a 1989 all numbers matching, non-mod'ed N/A. The car is very clean and had been well taken care of... however it does have 145,xxx miles on it. I recently did the wheels, d&s rotors, brakes (although wish I would have known the Emergency brake set up before I did this) & calipers. Put new rubber on it and she was ready to go. Then I decided to upgrade the clutch and get a new flywheel (I was hoping that the lose wrist pin was actually a bad pilot bearing...but it wasn't so I’m looking for a N/A Motor now as well)... but here lies my problem..... I installed the clutch with a friend...we had some shutter that worked itself out (figured break in) but when I go to engage the clutch the thing sings like a birdie...so as well... I thought bad throwout Bearing ???? contacted GForce and they sent me a new one....thank you.... this time we made sure everything was torqued...lubed up and the tranny was so much easier this time I almost blew a nut when the tranny popped right into place...much easier then the first time....so we bolt everything back up....and that damn bird is still in there somewhere.... I will come right out and say that i did not reset the slave cylinder shaft or bleed the slave cylinder.... could this be the reason it feels like it engages well and the peddal has about 1 inch of peddal before engagement? the clutch performs as it should and when I’m running her she has no slippage in any gear...(my flywheel was shot and I was having allot of slip coming out of 4th around 95+mph :~p


any and all help is appreciated....as well....I’m still gonna need that motor - she's worth saving and I’ll keep my motor to build...and to be honest I’m not sure I’m going to whip her or not...but I think my direction will be a stroked heavy breather with a little drinking problem :~)

thanks for all the help in advance
Robert-
 

turbogeek87

turbogeek87
Mar 29, 2006
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Juneau, AK
>will come right out and say that i did not reset the slave cylinder shaft or bleed the slave cylinder.... could this be the reason it feels like it engages well and the peddal has about 1 inch of peddal before engagement?

No reason to bleed the slave, hydraulics are self adjusting. The only adjustment is in the pedal. It sounds as though it is adjusted right. When you say engaged, you mean pedal pressed? (pressed is actually disengaged, as pressure plate/flywheel and disk are released from one another). Possibly you got a bad pilot or throw out bearing.
 

turbogeek87

turbogeek87
Mar 29, 2006
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Juneau, AK
turbogeek87;1340711 said:
>will come right out and say that i did not reset the slave cylinder shaft or bleed the slave cylinder.... could this be the reason it feels like it engages well and the peddal has about 1 inch of peddal before engagement?

No reason to bleed the slave, hydraulics are self adjusting. The only adjustment is in the pedal. It sounds as though it is adjusted right. When you say engaged, you mean pedal pressed? (pressed is actually disengaged, as pressure plate/flywheel and disk are released from one another). Possibly you got a bad pilot or throw out bearing.

OK, my reading comprehension sucks... Throw out already replaced. New flywheel... is it stock or aluminum? Less weight might bring out a worn main bearing or for that matter, may change the harmonics for the wrist pin problem.