Sighting/Clutch problem update

[skerocdriver@juno.com (Shawn c Meze)]

On Tue, 09 Jul 2002 16:02:30 -0500 Nate Mellom <bronson@inwave.com>
writes:

> a punched-through pressure plate.  Looking at my tranny, there is a
> section about 4 inches wide that looks to be removable from the main
> body of the tranny (just below the drivers motor mount) towards the
> drivers tire.  Should I pull this section and see what I can see or
> should I drop the whole tranny?  



Pull it. Its the 5th gear housing. if the finger, pushrod or throwout
bearing is broke/bad, its easiest to fix it this way than dropping the
whole tranny. 



>A buddy of mine has a spare FF I  can
> swap in temporarily, but I think that if something is wrong with my 
> car  I'll need either a new pressure plate or a new pushrod.
> Any suggestions?
> Oh, I need a new end cap too, I trashed mine getting it out.  Is 
> this
> Potter-able?


Oh yeah. he's got that and a bag of cookies. Have him send you a new 5th
gear housing gasket while your at it. Plus any other parts you might need
to fix it. GL!


Shawn Méze
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