I have had this one time and it was the Pilot Bearing. It was stuck to the trans shaft.

 

how did you get it off??? BFH?

 

The inner race was attached to the trans and outer was still in the hole.

Hit the inner with a Chisle to cut it and a puller for the hole.


Cleaned the shaft up with Scotchbrite and put it all back together, That was 2 years ago and it is working fine.

 

bumpizzle

 

Fix yer damn car already! Race day is just 8 days away! Chop chop! Don't make me come over there......

 

what the hell is this rattle can pos on your sig ? Ford Escourt ? wtf this is a rx 7 site not a ford pos site

 

...says the guy with "1988 Cutlass" in his sig

 

yeah that is a car i used to own, thank you. Aint nothing wrong with a cutlass anyways...

 

...in your opinion. And in his, there's nothing wrong with showing off some ghetto mods to his Escort. Judge not lest ye be judged, and all that, mkay?

 

I had this happen twice to me:

first a coil damper spring in the clutch hub cracked, and half a turn of coil fell and jammed between the friction disc and the flywheel, and it would not let the clutch release. I didn't know the spring in the clutch hub had broke; like you, I suspected hydraulic problems so I replaced master cylinder and slave cylinder, and bled and bled, and it still would not release. I finally pulled the clutch apart, and saw the little broken spring piece jammed in place and said Duhhhh

second time it happened, about 15 years later, a piece of organic friction material broke off and again jammed between the rest of the clutch disc and the flywheel, preventing release.

I have been good to my pilot bearings, and have not had a pilot bearing failure yet.

 

i understand what your saying, but with mine after the original problem, it went away, and then it came back. and honestly i dont think that a piece would lodge and then un lodge and then lodge again.

and whats with all of the escort hating?? im 19 fricken years old, do you expect that i drive a mercedes when the 7 is down?? or how about i do that monstrosity of a hood scoop on the 7?? i was bored and for the sake of argument, my MPG went up after that mod. but alas. it met a terrible terrible death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PTjK8bC4js

enjoy.

 

Ok, this could be a long shot, but... when you installed the slave cylinder, was the "push rod" thing pointed in the right direction. The second time I replaced my slave cylinder, the push rod was in backwards from the factory. I didn't pay any attention and assumed it was in there right. I don't remember exactly what the symptoms were. It might be worth checking and would take a minimal amount of time.

 

ckecked it, its right.

 

holy double post batman!

 

One week to race day Cody...... We'll have a big party at my place the night before, camping in backyard, bonfire, margaritas, naked volleyball, and maybe a little scrabble. My wife has three horny younger sisters who like guys named Cody.

Move your ***! Get the car fixed....

 

was gonna do it this morning, but it was raining, and i dont have a cement drive so my jack will just sink in the dirt. ill get started on it this morning when i wake up. and im interested in the sisters

 

WE have a winner!




but when i got it out, the pilot bearing was bad as well. but im fairly positive the problem was because of the clutch.

 

I say BS> Look at page 1. I said the clutch

 

that sucks!!! but that looks like the problem right there by far

 

my bad, you are the winner. you get five forum dollars!!!!

 

Enough about RX-7 stuff and back to the more interesting poultry discussion . . . If an egg lies around un-incubated by a mother hen, will it hatch?

 

thank you.

 

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, i was acually fixing to post on here right after reading your post about you didnt think a piece could become lodged and dislodged, ill add that mine did this on the way home from bryan texas to corpus texas and every once in a while that piece would would come dislodged and my clutch would work fine again.

 

i will add that if it is not to late go w/ the ACT clutch kit its too friggin sweet.

 

and friggen expensive... and i already went with the ebay XTD stage three so when i throw nitrous at it down the road it can take it....