Clutch release arm and clutch plate was the wrong way.

[DeeTurbo]

Thursday night I took it apart again to find the plate was in the wrong way.




This is how it was,




and this is how it should have been, notice you can see the markings saying which side should be facing the gearbox behind the spring.




Damage to the flywheel bolts from the plate. I was lucky there wasn't more damage.



The stud trick didn't work ether. I took the N/S shaft out and left the O/S attached, I thought I could just slide the box to one side with the trolley jack under it but the O/S shaft got stuck in the box. I couldn't do anything until I got the shaft out and that was a pain to do now so getting it apart took a lot longer then I thought it was going to. In the end I had to remove the O/s shaft completely and then dropped the box out using an engine crane. It's nice that there are two points on the box that you can hang the box from and it will be balanced level.


The other reason I couldn't pull the box across as the chassis leg got in the way.

I also replaced the lower engine mount and the car drives so much nicer now, with a lot less vibrations and the engine seems smoother as I think the old realise bearing must have been running dry for quite some time.

I now need to find out why there isn't much power there compared to my girlfriends car but I think this might be down to the brakes dragging a little. There is not one that's dragging a lot but all dragging a little so going to rebuild the front calipers and I've bought some new one to replace the rears as I found some going cheap on ebay.