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Bob needs some help in Dallas. He might have the clutch in backwards. I can neither confirm nor deny that I know this from personal experience.
“I need someone to help correct a clutch problem. I have replaced the flywheel, clutch disc., pressure plate, through out bearing and all the linkage. Clutch will not disengage. Will pay I need to get this corrected as I’m almost finished wit a complete rebuild. ”
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/pts/5961100791.html
Did you install the small return spring on the fork assembly to the trans face plate to hold the thowout bearing away from the clutch? If you remove all clutch linkage, does it still stay engaged? If not, something in the linkage must be too short. Cable can be adjusted, but what about the bellcrank rod length? Do you have the original parts to compare to? Without more symptoms or specifics on what you’ve already tried, that’s how I’d approach it. Start with disconnecting the rod and see what happens. I believe specs say you should have 1/2″ pedal movement slack. Hope something here helps. Just going over basics, not trying to suggest you haven’t already done any of the above. Good Luck.
Aside from all the important facts mentioned by Steve K, A clutch adjustment can drive you nuts if your body to frame mounts are sagging, no matter how correct your adjustments according to specs ARE, you will never get enough clutch petal movement to disengage the clutch. If everything else fails, try this fix.
Depending on how long it has been sitting since you put it together and sometimes it doesn’t take that long, the disc can rust to the flywheel. So you can be disengageing the clutch but it will be turning tranny. I have tried starting it low gear , driving slow around yard, but what works best is if you can get access through inspection cover, or starter hole , with clutch depressed, with a flat blade screwdriver ,sometimes custom bent and pry disc from flywheel. Generally takes very little effort to pop it loose. Have had several in my years that this that have done this from sitting. One time was only over winter.
I doubt it is the clutch in backwards. Usually when you put it in backwards, it will still disengage, but you will hear a lot of noise as the springs on the clutch disk collide wither the nuts on the flywheel.
I’m going with cable length adjustment. Or has the cable jumped out of the clutch fork?? If there is little or no tension on the cable, it may have dislodged the ball on the end of the cable from the fork.
Look into the inspection port on the bell housing, engine off use a flash light.
I put a clutch disc in backwards in a ’48 L-134 once and also didn’t adjust the pressure plate out on the bench. It didn’t make a lot of noise, just couldn’t adjust it to completely disengage. When I finally resigned myself to pull the engine again (which was actually less work than I had already spent jacking around with it) I discovered that someone had mad a note in my manual that was wrong.
What was happening is that the friction plate was flexing, which made it act like it was about 3/16″ thicker than reality. There isn’t enough adjustment to accommodate that, or it might have worked! (But probably not for long…)
All good suggestions, so I will concur!!! Good Luck!!! I’m thinking the small return spring like SteveK mentioned. That was my first thought. A 50 cent piece that is easily overlooked. You might get lucky and be able to replace it through the top inspection hole or maybe the one on the right side of the bellhousing.
Disconnect the linkage at the clutch “torque shaft” where it enters the bell housing. Attach some kind of lever to the shaft – as long a lever as there is room to move under the vehicle. Get plenty of light and lie at an comfortable angle so you can twist the shaft with the lever. Can you get the clutch to dis-engage? If you can, then it’s a linkage problem. If you can’t, then there’s something wrong inside the bell housing. I have a similar problem and am beginning to get the impression the clutch kit I bought is not the same as the OEM unit. Best of luck.
Be sure to let us know what the issue was. Could possibly help someone else out.
I’ve contact Bob and shared a link to this post. Hopefully it will help him. Thanks for everyone’s input!
– Dave