I'm in the process of converting from an AOD to a T5 and I am more or less done with the conversion except when I go to push the clutch pedal in, the further it goes in the harder it gets to the point where it feels like I'm about to snap the cable. The clutch pedal goes in smooth when I disconnect the cable and the clutch fork moves back and forth smooth when I disconnect the cable on that end.
It feels to me like when the fork/TOB is pressing against the pressure plate diaphram it is getting jammed up on something. My possible list of causes are the following, which seems most likely?
1. Faulty pressure plate (I bought an XTD stage 3 clutch from ebay)
2. Fork pivot not adjusted correctly (threads are backed out quite a bit)
3. Binding of the throwout bearing on the input shaft further down the shaft
4. Binding of tbe cable (the cable moves pretty freely on its own, but maybe under high tension it is binding)
5. ???
Any ideas? I will admit when putting the transmission in it went in nearly all the way on its own, but there was a 1/4" gap that we close with the bolts but they didn't feel overly hard to turn so I assumed it wasn't binding on anything.
It feels to me like when the fork/TOB is pressing against the pressure plate diaphram it is getting jammed up on something. My possible list of causes are the following, which seems most likely?
1. Faulty pressure plate (I bought an XTD stage 3 clutch from ebay)
2. Fork pivot not adjusted correctly (threads are backed out quite a bit)
3. Binding of the throwout bearing on the input shaft further down the shaft
4. Binding of tbe cable (the cable moves pretty freely on its own, but maybe under high tension it is binding)
5. ???
Any ideas? I will admit when putting the transmission in it went in nearly all the way on its own, but there was a 1/4" gap that we close with the bolts but they didn't feel overly hard to turn so I assumed it wasn't binding on anything.