atihun

It would be ok if I could say "Yea, I was pullin' the tranny and when I was lifting it off I hit my eye". But no,
I was just taking off the 21 mm nuts from the PPF with a nice 1/2 breaker bar, when clank, right into the side of my cheek! It was already loose, and I was moving the ratchet easily. Barely touched my cheek bone right underneath my eye, but it turned black (it actually looks worse in person).

Here's the garage in shambles:





And here's the reason for my headache:



Looks like it had a weak spot where there is a small cross bolt drilled through the cast fork.

PS. Removing the clutch is actually easy, just make sure you have the right tools.

MastaCow

<laugh> Sorry to hear of your troubles...reminds me of the guy on www.nsxfiles.com.

http://www.nsxfiles.com/flywheel.htm

Toadman

Man...ouch. You must be on the phone with me.
Reminds me of Goodfella's fake post about the shift **** flying off and smacking him in the eye.

While you got the tranny out, how's your 5th gear synchro?

twinturboteddy

i was just going to post the same picture

atihun

The synchro seems fine, even with 95K miles. ( I don't mis-shift )

What I did notice is that the driveshaft u-joints will need to be rebuilt with replacable joints; they seem a little notchy. I'll do that when I get the engine rebuilt, hopefully a while from now.

JONSKI

Hey my roommate has the same phone. Assuming that's the Panasonic 2.4GHz gigarange extreme w/ Caller ID.

atihun

Same phone. I can use it down the street!

JONSKI

GRAVY!

A-Spec

hey you have Metrinch!!! it's soo cool although I only use it on Metric stuff, but comes in handy when dealing with the US sizes.

hope you get better

David

atihun

The Metrinch has saved me a few times when there are bolts / nuts that are rounded a little. Mine are good for both metric and standard.

And after a week and a half, my eye is still black.

Oh well, at least it was done right

On a side note, the only thing that scared the crap outa me was when I removed the rear stationary gear. This bolts direclty to the back of the engine and is what the rear rotor turns on and eccentric shaft sits in. Well, I removed it because there was oil coming from around that, not just the rear main seal.

Anyways, I unbolt it and it comes off but not very easily. So I said to myself: hmmm... that was kinda tight, let me see if I can put it back on! I line it up, try to push it in and nothing happens, metal to metal contact. Ok, so maybe I didn't line it up correctly, lets try it again. I line it up, this time I tap both sides of the gear with my hands. Clank, clank! OH ****!! I was so scared that something had shifted; shouldn't with the rear gear, but what if?!!? That would mean an entire rebuild. So the third time, with my heart jumping out my mouth, I line it up and give it another good whack with my hands. Clank! And then it slipped in! YAY!!! So I thought if I did this once I could do it again.

I took out the rear stationary gear and noticed that when the clutch was done by TriPoint 50K ago, they did not put the oil O ring when they re-installed it. Not to mention that they did not tighten the flywheel nut to spec, and no lock-tite on it. It took just a few taps with the hammer and the nut came loose.

Well at least now, I know I did it right; I hope!

grampa

I am going to have to do my clutch shortly. Where did you get the cross bar to hold the engine? I thought I'd ask before fabbing something up.

atihun

My dad and I whipped that together in about 10 minutes. It took longer to setup the arc welder and clean up afterwards then to actually make the thing.

Here is the drawing/dimensions that worked for me:



We did bend the sides a little held in a vice so that the bottom dimension was exactly 49 inches.

I then used a spring compressor to hold the engine to the bar. If you want a closer pic, let me know.

Attila

grampa

Thanks, much obliged for the dimensions. I have been eyeing the use of a spring compressor but wanted to do better than use 2x4s for the cross brace -complicated by my FD being snowed into the storage unit making measurements tough...

Scott Olsen

I feel your pain; I had my clutch fork break in exactly the same spot..

atihun

Yea, there's a little set screw that goes right through there.

purepsi

sorry about the eye but remember no matter what they do to us they will always love us