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Originally Posted by Murlo26
So the clutch went huh?
What clutch you planning on going with?
Doing the MC/Diff pins at the same time?
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Yup, toasted the clutch racing this weekend. WORTH IT!
I got home late Sunday night to a whiny wife (she missed me, what can I say!) My shitty little compressor took a crap a few weeks ago, so I ran out Monday and picked up this thing from harbor freight (thanks for the tip mark!), and cleaned up my tool area (took a LOT of them with me up to BIR):
Nothing fancy, but then again I don't do any pro work, just work on my shit and some friends' cars. Anyways, yesterday I was talking to Jim (TalonEvo/Fiero) and after spending the weekend racing together he was ready to help me rip into my car and just get this thing fixed in my garage. I've done a clutch job on a 1G DSM before, but my 2G and evo8 I paid someone else to do, just a real PITA. We started around 7:30pm, Anna brought us some PeiWei around 8 or 830.
We rigged up a sweet tranny jack:
Trevor stopped by after work around 11 or 1130? and we got the xfer case off and most of the trans bolts out. We later found a few secret trans bolts, and got the whole thing free of the block. We then spent about an hour or two wrestling with the thing and massaging it out of the car. Around 2am, trans was on the floor, I yanked the clutch/flywheel, and we crashed. Trevor nearly fell asleep on my garage floor while holding the jack, LOL.
A few notes:
-we did pull the downpipe
-we did putz with the TOB a bit, but got it off by doing one side, then turning the motor over 180° and then popping off the other side.
-we did not disconnect the driveshaft
-we did not fully remove the transfer case, it sits nicely on the frame
-we dropped the subframe about 1" and hung it on its mounting bolts for the final 1" of clearance to get the trans free.
8am I'm at a client for work, and feel pretty damn beat.
Flywheel is getting machined today.
Damn it murlo, forgot about the diff pins and the stupid plastic master cylinder on these things.....something to noodle while I wait for my clutch to come in I guess. ACT 6-puck spring (HDG6) is the plan.