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My wife came home from work yesterday and told me about Drew a guy she works with. Drew's life is a open book (an audio book that is playing constantly I'm told)
Anyway he and someone else were putting a clutch in something and forget to put the throwout bearing in. He asked my wife if your husband has ever done anything like that.
Yes I have. About 20 years ago I had rebuilt the BBC in my pickup and didn't have an engine crane to put it back in. A friend had one and said he would stop by on a certain day. Ok great. Then he showed up 2 days early.
He had limited time and we grabbed the engine and stuffed it in.
Great. Next day I went under to hook up stuff and put the torque converter bolts in and discovered I'd not put the flex plate on the engine.
That same day I bought an engine crane, and still have the same one.
So fast forward to today. Some of you have been following my nova build thread. Yesterday I got the trans back in and exhaust hooked up, driveshaft in. This morning I bleed the clutch and have great pedal. This LS3 clutch requires a lot more force to push the pedal down. Not excessive, but a noticeable difference.
So same as before, can't get it into gear. Tried putting it into gear and then starting it, but engine won't turn over and some magic smoke came out of my proform starter.
So I'm about ready to pull the manual and put an auto in it. I just don't know what's wrong. The only possible thing I can think of is I put an extended pilot bushing in and it could be the input shaft is bottoming on the pilot bushing. From looking at the wear pattern on on the snout shaft snout it looked like I had plenty of room for the extended bushing, but I didn't check it. I should have put some modeling clay in the back of the crank and put the trans in and checked it, but I didn't. I'm paying for that now.
So walking away from it for now. Just not sure what my next step is.
Anyway he and someone else were putting a clutch in something and forget to put the throwout bearing in. He asked my wife if your husband has ever done anything like that.
Yes I have. About 20 years ago I had rebuilt the BBC in my pickup and didn't have an engine crane to put it back in. A friend had one and said he would stop by on a certain day. Ok great. Then he showed up 2 days early.
He had limited time and we grabbed the engine and stuffed it in.
Great. Next day I went under to hook up stuff and put the torque converter bolts in and discovered I'd not put the flex plate on the engine.
That same day I bought an engine crane, and still have the same one.
So fast forward to today. Some of you have been following my nova build thread. Yesterday I got the trans back in and exhaust hooked up, driveshaft in. This morning I bleed the clutch and have great pedal. This LS3 clutch requires a lot more force to push the pedal down. Not excessive, but a noticeable difference.
So same as before, can't get it into gear. Tried putting it into gear and then starting it, but engine won't turn over and some magic smoke came out of my proform starter.
So I'm about ready to pull the manual and put an auto in it. I just don't know what's wrong. The only possible thing I can think of is I put an extended pilot bushing in and it could be the input shaft is bottoming on the pilot bushing. From looking at the wear pattern on on the snout shaft snout it looked like I had plenty of room for the extended bushing, but I didn't check it. I should have put some modeling clay in the back of the crank and put the trans in and checked it, but I didn't. I'm paying for that now.
So walking away from it for now. Just not sure what my next step is.