Won't shift into gear when running, lunges when you attempt to start it in gear with clutch pedal depressed.

Was working normally. After the slave cylinder blew out, I pulled it, overhauled, then re-installed it, and now it pulls the pressure plate back and releases it again like normal. First thought was pressure plate ring, but it pulls and releases without slipping. Clutch pedal feels firm, attempted to bleed several additional times, I get fluid out every time. Any ideas on what I should try before transmission has to come off.

It is an SR Motorsports flywheel btw.

Seen lots of FD clutch horror stories over the years, mine have always worked fine after putting the legos together. Hope it is not my turn.

 

When you say "overhaul", did you pull the transmission, clutch plate and everything out? Or just the slave cylinder?

 

Just the slave. Never touched anything else.

 

It's going to be clutch hydraulics. If your slave died, get a NEW slave, NEW master, and a braided stainless clutch line.

I've tried on a number of occasions to rebuild clutch hydraulics and it never works right. New parts are the way to go.

If one fails, the rest will fail in short order. You put a new part on, you now increase the hydraulic load (with new, tight seals) on the old part and it blows out. Just do it all at once.

It is possible you just still have air in the system, but I'd just do it all right.

Dale

 

other possibility is a bad pilot bearing catching the input shaft, i've dealt with a few of those.

 

Its probably the slave. They are a PIA to rebuild and have work.

 

I always recommend replacing all 3 together. Changing just one often results in a failure of another part of the system. Look under the dash where the clutch pedal rod goes through the firewall to see if its wet with brake fluid. Sounds like the clutch fork isn't moving enough to disengage the clutch or the clutch disk is seized to the flywheel. This can happen if the clutch wasn't disengaging all the way and was slipping.

 

I had an issue that closely matches the symptoms you described. It turned out to be a broken clutch fork. I replaced it, and problem solved.

 

Update:

Guy that picked up this project from me found that the disc was just stuck to the flywheel. Maybe the leaking slave cylinder slightly bonded it.

He just started it several times with it in gear and it broke free.