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Mail From: supermiataman (Ben Upton)




ok, got the indigo flywheel and act clutch installed, the tranny will go
into gear when the car is off, turn it on, and it has to be forced into
gear. Why is the question. What did I do wrong?

when you do finally get it into gear, it doesn't try to lunge forward or
anything, and it will move if you release the clutch. and once you get it
in one forward gear its only semi hard to get it into the others, but
reverse takes an act of congress. and once you get it in reverse, you have
problems going to forward gears again.

any thoughts before I take it to the transmission shop on monday? i have al
day tomorrow if I have to, but I really don't want to take the transmission
out again, its a long process that I will not undergo again.
thanks in advance
Ben

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Mail From: treynolds (Tom Reynolds)

Your clutch is not fully engaging. Double check the throw on the slave
cylinder rod and clutch fork. Have you tried pumping the clutch to see
if that helps? If it does, bleed the clutch system.



Tom
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ok, got the indigo flywheel and act clutch installed, the tranny will go

into gear when the car is off, turn it on, and it has to be forced into
gear. Why is the question. What did I do wrong?

when you do finally get it into gear, it doesn't try to lunge forward or

anything, and it will move if you release the clutch. and once you get
it
in one forward gear its only semi hard to get it into the others, but
reverse takes an act of congress. and once you get it in reverse, you
have
problems going to forward gears again.

any thoughts before I take it to the transmission shop on monday? i
have al
day tomorrow if I have to, but I really don't want to take the
transmission
out again, its a long process that I will not undergo again.
thanks in advance
Ben

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Mail From: Larry (Larry Alster)

2 things come to mind. You might need to adjust the clutch rod under the
dash for more throw. How close to the floor is the clutch grabbing??? If
it's really low you need to try adjusting it a little.

The other choice is you put the clutch disk in backwards.

Larry

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From: "Ben Upton" <(email redacted)>
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Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 8:37 PM
Subject: [Miata] tranny woes, need help bad!


>
>
>
>
> ok, got the indigo flywheel and act clutch installed, the tranny will go
> into gear when the car is off, turn it on, and it has to be forced into
> gear. Why is the question. What did I do wrong?
>
> when you do finally get it into gear, it doesn't try to lunge forward or
> anything, and it will move if you release the clutch. and once you get it
> in one forward gear its only semi hard to get it into the others, but
> reverse takes an act of congress. and once you get it in reverse, you
have
> problems going to forward gears again.
>
> any thoughts before I take it to the transmission shop on monday? i have
al
> day tomorrow if I have to, but I really don't want to take the
transmission
> out again, its a long process that I will not undergo again.
> thanks in advance
> Ben
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Mail From: java_caffeina (Ron Zander)

Sounds like you just need to adjust the clutch, it's not disengaging all the
way and that's why it won't go into gear. You could also have air in the
system, not sure if you took that apart. There must be some kind of clutch
adjustment you can do.

Ronald Zander
Java Caffeina
2228 Sunrise Blvd.
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
916-852-1923
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Subject: [Miata] tranny woes, need help bad!






ok, got the indigo flywheel and act clutch installed, the tranny will go
into gear when the car is off, turn it on, and it has to be forced into
gear. Why is the question. What did I do wrong?

when you do finally get it into gear, it doesn't try to lunge forward or
anything, and it will move if you release the clutch. and once you get it
in one forward gear its only semi hard to get it into the others, but
reverse takes an act of congress. and once you get it in reverse, you have
problems going to forward gears again.

any thoughts before I take it to the transmission shop on monday? i have al
day tomorrow if I have to, but I really don't want to take the transmission
out again, its a long process that I will not undergo again.
thanks in advance
Ben

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Mail From: supermiataman (Ben Upton)

well its not the pedal engagement point, so I guess I might have put the
clutch disc in backwards, i remember looking at the disc and saying, this
can only go in one way, but I might have still stuck it in the wrong way.
I'm taking it to a shop mon. morn.
thanks for the help ron and larry
Ben






>From: "Ron Zander" <(email redacted)>
>Reply-To: <(email redacted)>
>To: <(email redacted)>
>Subject: RE: [Miata] tranny woes, need help bad!
>Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 19:20:03 -0800
>
>Sounds like you just need to adjust the clutch, it's not disengaging all
>the
>way and that's why it won't go into gear. You could also have air in the
>system, not sure if you took that apart. There must be some kind of clutch
>adjustment you can do.
>
>Ronald Zander
>Java Caffeina
>2228 Sunrise Blvd.
>Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
>916-852-1923
>(email redacted)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: (email redacted) [mailto:(email redacted)]On Behalf
>Of Ben Upton
>Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 5:38 PM
>To: (email redacted)
>Subject: [Miata] tranny woes, need help bad!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>ok, got the indigo flywheel and act clutch installed, the tranny will go
>into gear when the car is off, turn it on, and it has to be forced into
>gear. Why is the question. What did I do wrong?
>
>when you do finally get it into gear, it doesn't try to lunge forward or
>anything, and it will move if you release the clutch. and once you get it
>in one forward gear its only semi hard to get it into the others, but
>reverse takes an act of congress. and once you get it in reverse, you have
>problems going to forward gears again.
>
>any thoughts before I take it to the transmission shop on monday? i have
>al
>day tomorrow if I have to, but I really don't want to take the transmission
>out again, its a long process that I will not undergo again.
>thanks in advance
>Ben
>
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