I removed the motor and bell housing mounts to inspect them- they are new and in excellent condition. It was not fun removing these!
The open Driveshaft is new. Jerry’s idea is a good one, but I have an open driveshaft, and everything is apart right now. When the new clutch goes in, if I am dealing with the same issue afterwards, I will be pulling a cable around the engine…..
The flywheel has been resurfaced twice now, installed and the run out checked with a dual indicator at multiple locations along the friction surface of the flywheel. All well within spe, no high or low spots discovered.
I have a crossmember under the T5 with a T5 rubber mount, but it was installed to try and solve the problem (it did not solve the problem), and since the consensus is that the T5 should not have a crossmember, I am goin to keep the crossmember, but remove the rubber mount when I put everything back together, so that the T5 is no longer supported/restricted.
My Clutch pressure plate fingers are not level after torquing down clutch.I found a clutch guy in Texas who understands these trucks, and I went over all of my dial indicator measurements (housing bore, housing trans mount surface, flywheel runout, etc)… and he has told me that the FLAPS made in Africa cover plates I am buying are basically crap, because the fingers should be even when everything is torqued down. We are going to install a new cover plate, disc, with the shorter style throw out bearing. The new cover plate fingers will be higher and not be completely flattened out when torqued down.
Apparently, back when we had asbestos clutch linings, these problems were less likely to occur.
I will follow up here in a couple of weeks when I get everything out back together….
Last edited by Norcal Dave; 01/10/2025 4:08 PM.
