What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?

gtgto said
This trans and clutch project is going well. Waiting on my friends shop on the trans. Yesterday I had so much fun removing the over center spring in preparation for when I can install the trans back in the car. That OC spring better never have to go back in the car. Other than that cleaned up a lot of the mess I made with dirty tools and old gasket material all over the floor so I can mess it up again. Should I have the clutch fork and throwout bearing in place when I put the trans back in or should I put the throwout bearing on the trans and put the fork in place once in? What do the pros do?

I always clip my throw out bearing onto the fork with the fork in place in the bell housing but you do have to be gentle inserting the input shaft at first and keep an eye on it as you move forward to make sure that you haven't knocked it off the spring. It can be challenging but I've been doing it on my car for 30 years and it's pretty simple now LOL make sure that clutchplate and pilot bushing are all lined up with pilot tool and as the input shaft enters the clutch plate I will wiggle the tail shaft shaft slightly back and forth to help align the splines as it enters the clutch plate.