No wonder it wouldn't move!
Tale of woe that's about to have a decent ending:
I got my 86 Accord on the road. Lots of power, real smooth, everything great. Even did a little freeway driving--about 100 miles to South Carolina and back. Love the moonroof; wish I had discovered those before! Two days after I got back from South Carolina, I got in the car to go to work. On the way down I stopped off at the supermarket for a muffin. It won't go into gear? This isn't so good! Finally I did get it into the parking lot. I also got it the rest of the way to work. Okay, let's see...engine runs good. When I can get it into gear the transmission works good. Must be the clutch. Two weekends ago I got the car home and started working on it. Talk about a comedy of errors! Let's see...get out the Haynes and do all the steps down to "loosen drive axle nuts." Leaf, leaf, leaf..."this step must be done with the tires on the ground." Take car off jackstands and loosen drive axle nuts. Loosen lug nuts. Jack car back up. Remove said nuts. "Detach lower control arms from ball joints" should read "Stand back and watch as ball joints laugh at mechanic's feeble attempts to unhook them." Tried every tool I had. Finally borrowed a pickle fork and a ball joint replacer. Bought two new ball joints. Now have unhooked lower control arms and new ball joints. Bonus! "Remove drive axles." Slid right out. Starting to get suspicious. "Unbolt engine from transaxle." Remove seven million bolts. Decide Mr. Honda's brother-in-law must be in the vacuum hose business. "Make sure all of the bolts are removed." Discover one nut that refuses to come out. It is a 17mm nut that holds a engine-to-transmission bracket in place. It is tightened to approximately five thousand lb/ft torque. I removed the top bolt and will worry about removing this nut later. "Remove transaxle from car." Finally! It's down! (Quick question: there are two 5mm-or-thereabouts hoses coming off the top of the transmission toward the back side of the car. They, of course, pulled off, dripping oil all over my garage floor. What is at the non-transmission end of these hoses? I have them marked as to which fitting they hook to.) "Unbolt pressure plate." I used my floor jack as a flywheel lock. "Remove pressure plate and clutch disc from car and inspect." There is absolutely no friction material on the pressure plate side of the clutch disc. The only thing making the car go down the road were the rivets that are supposed to hold the friction material on. There ain't a whole lot more of it on the flywheel side. No wonder it wouldn't move! "Clean flywheel with brake system cleaner. There must be no oil on the flywheel." I have a gallon of Bestine rubber cement thinner. It is heptane based and works well for this. "Remove clutch from package and clean friction surface of pressure plate." Bestine again. "Use special little tool they give you to align clutch disc on flywheel." Done. "Attach pressure plate." 19 lb-ft isn't as much torque as I'm used to, but then again .004" isn't as much spark plug gap as I'm used to either, and that's what Honda wants. So give it 19 lb-ft. Now I'm at "install new release bearing." There's a little spring that holds the release bearing in place, and the ears on that spring have worn off. No problem. Stop off at the Honda dealer after work and get a new one. Still working... --jmowreader |
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