WoW... What A Week!

[Project2G]

I drive a 1997 Mitsubishi Eclipse GST that I picked up in May bone stock. So on Friday 11/9 my water pump went out and after putting in a new water pump on the 11th my starter went out. Since I have the walbro 255 and it takes a few tries to start the car while it builds up fuel pressure it finally decided to go out. After waiting a few days to get a new starter I got the car running again on Friday night 11/16 but when I drove the car around every time I would hit 3k rpm's I would hear this terrible noise and feel vibration. I could not think of what what causing the vibration. Me and a friend thought it could be the balance shafts since I did remove my AC. After realigning the balance shafts yesterday I drove around and it was still vibrating and feeling sluggish. I drove home (20 miles) and went to meet up with some girl to buy my old ECU. After the long drive I got off the freeway and was at a stop light and had the car in 1st gear with my clutch pushed in and when my light turned green I brought up the clutch but the clutch never came up and the car just kept accelerating. I could not pull it out of first gear, so I immedianlty pulled into a small center with small businesses and just parked there. So do you guys think I was hearing my pressure plate and throwout bearing vibrating? Was this my warning my clutch was going out?

[JET]

It could be. You might have lost part of the disk and it jammed in there, or a spring. You can get the balance shaft a rotation off, it is easy to do. Did you stick the screwdriver in the side of the block to check it?

[Project2G]

It could be. You might have lost part of the disk and it jammed in there, or a spring. You can get the balance shaft a rotation off, it is easy to do. Did you stick the screwdriver in the side of the block to check it?
I haven't got it towed home yet. I was deciding if I should get it towed to my place or TPunx. I can get it towed to my place for free since AAA does 7 miles for free and my car is 21 miles from TPunx.

[b00stcreep21]

It's very possible that yoru clutch let go. My 1g did the same thing. The vibration slowly got worse and worse until the clutch said fuck it and went bye bye

[Project2G]

I wonder if the flywheel is damaged at all.

[JET]

Probably not much. The disk usually trashes itself.

[tpunx99GSX]

I also originally thought that i may have misaligned the balance shafts, but i took off the timing belt again and made sure the balance shafts were perfectly aligned. After finishing that the vibration continued.
Its definatly been a very trying couple weeks. and now this. I was thinking that maybe the TO bearing went through the PP. Which i have seen happen. You should be able to wiggle the clutch fork if it did go through right guys?

[JET]

The marks on the balance shafts will all line up, but it can still be a turn off. You have to put the screwdriver into the block to see which way it is rotated.