[DML] Re: Continued: Problems With Valeo Brand Clutch Discs?

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

After a "few" years of experience I have figured out by now that you
dry fit ALL parts before assembly. When the trans is up in the air it
is no time to find out you can't get the splined shaft to enter the
clutch plate. Besides, I usually find you have to "dress up" or polish
the shaft sometimes to get everything to slide nice. The old clutch
plate was riding in only one spot on the shaft so the rest tends to
get dirty, rusty, etc while the spot the plate rides on gets a little
loose. Sometimes you have to try different positions, some fit looser
than others. I once had a wrong pilot bearing and just could not get
the trans all the way on. (not on a Delorean but a BIG truck). After
trying to force the parts together we finally took it down and the
pilot bearing was a mess. Again the moral of this little story is to
check and dry-fit before final assembly. Draining the fluids also
comes with experience. 90W gear oil is sticky when it runs down your
sleeve, your neck, your hair, etc on a hot summer day.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "content22207" <brobertson@xxxx> wrote:
> Because the female splines on the input shaft are too big to slip
> through the bellhousing, I have removed the bellhousing/input
> shaft/throwout bearing/trapped pressure plate/stuck clutch disc as a
> complete assembly. Tomorrow it'll be pressed off.
> 





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