- May 30, 2015
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Hey guys, ive been having a complete and udder nightmare with my car. 02 GT. At first I was feeling some unsmoothness *grainy* feelings in the pedal that would come and go. I figured i would replace the clutch as it has 90k miles and everything is stock.
So, i bought an exedy mach 400 clutch kit and a ford racing throwoout bearing and pilot bearing and threw it on. Also, resurfaced my flywheel. Drove it, the unsmoothness feeling was gone, but in return i had a very noticeable vibration in the slack of the pedal. past the slack point it stopped vibration and was completely smooth.
I thought no big deal its just an adjusting problem so i ordered a Maximum Motorsports Adjuster Kit. Put that on and adjusted it to where the tob would start to spin, and then a couple more turns. Pedal felt better, but still vibration. The only way i could get the vibration to stop was it tighten the adjuster up until there was absolutely no slack in the pedal, but of course that would wear my clutch out if i drove like that.
So i thought maybe it just needed broken in for some reason. So i drove it for a couple weeks off and on for 350 miles, babying it, never revved above 3k RPM.
As the clutch started to break in I started to rev it a little higher in my shifts. With these higher rpm shifts, the fork would always fall off the set point on the pivot ball. I would have to go under the car and manually push it up into position and hear a click as it slid into place on the pivot ball. When the fork would fall from the set position, the pedal would get extrememly hard to push, and would have a "click" sound past a certain point in the pedal and also start vibrating ALOT more violently . But once i pushed the fork back into place, vibration would still be there but was minor, but was only a matter of time before it fell off again. I tried messing with the adjuster thinking it may not have enough pressure on the fork causing it to slide off but with no luck.
So, I ordered a OEM fork, Pivot ball, And a brand new OEM throwout bearing from my local ford dealership. I stayed up until 4:30 am and put all those in, along with brand new OEM flywheel bolts and pressure plate bolts. Got it all put together again and SAME .
I am totally beat on whats going on. I have had this transmission out so many times chasing these problems with no luck whatsoever. I am beyond the point of frustration. What do i do???
So, i bought an exedy mach 400 clutch kit and a ford racing throwoout bearing and pilot bearing and threw it on. Also, resurfaced my flywheel. Drove it, the unsmoothness feeling was gone, but in return i had a very noticeable vibration in the slack of the pedal. past the slack point it stopped vibration and was completely smooth.
I thought no big deal its just an adjusting problem so i ordered a Maximum Motorsports Adjuster Kit. Put that on and adjusted it to where the tob would start to spin, and then a couple more turns. Pedal felt better, but still vibration. The only way i could get the vibration to stop was it tighten the adjuster up until there was absolutely no slack in the pedal, but of course that would wear my clutch out if i drove like that.
So i thought maybe it just needed broken in for some reason. So i drove it for a couple weeks off and on for 350 miles, babying it, never revved above 3k RPM.
As the clutch started to break in I started to rev it a little higher in my shifts. With these higher rpm shifts, the fork would always fall off the set point on the pivot ball. I would have to go under the car and manually push it up into position and hear a click as it slid into place on the pivot ball. When the fork would fall from the set position, the pedal would get extrememly hard to push, and would have a "click" sound past a certain point in the pedal and also start vibrating ALOT more violently . But once i pushed the fork back into place, vibration would still be there but was minor, but was only a matter of time before it fell off again. I tried messing with the adjuster thinking it may not have enough pressure on the fork causing it to slide off but with no luck.
So, I ordered a OEM fork, Pivot ball, And a brand new OEM throwout bearing from my local ford dealership. I stayed up until 4:30 am and put all those in, along with brand new OEM flywheel bolts and pressure plate bolts. Got it all put together again and SAME .
I am totally beat on whats going on. I have had this transmission out so many times chasing these problems with no luck whatsoever. I am beyond the point of frustration. What do i do???