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Well, looks like my Grizzly kevlar clutch was only good for 30,000 miles  I just ordered parts from Bill (hey Eric - what's up with tying up his line while I'm trying to talk to him!) so if anyone feels like getting some free food and beer we can do a tranny pull at my house in the not to distant future.
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well that sucks. Only 30,000 miles? That's pretty weak IMO.
Good luck though.
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well between you, Eric and I. Im sure we can pull a tranny change a clutch in a weekend. Did you want to do anything to the tranny? diff? forks? syncro's? flywheel? Or just strait clutch.
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Originally posted by dubkatz:
well between you, Eric and I. Im sure we can pull a tranny change a clutch in a weekend. Did you want to do anything to the tranny? diff? forks? syncro's? flywheel? Or just strait clutch.
Well yes I'd love to do a torsen and synchros - but I'm just going to leave it at the clutch for now. I already have the SVT flywheel - so I'll probably just need to get it machined a bit for cleanup.
I figure with 80,000 miles of UDP life on the car it's only going to be a couple of years now before I'll have to throw a 3.0 in there  , and I'll do the whole shebang then or sell it before it blows up.
Also - the pre-98 trannies supposedly (from Terry) had the strengthened spiders to begin with and had a better shifter forks that rides on ballbearings. Since I've never heard of a pre-98 blowing a diff I'm inclined to believe him. My shifting is pretty decent when warmed up with the redline fluid - so I'll just make this a "quick" clutch swap with a new rear main oil seal just in case.
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scott, i to had the same problme with the grizzly clutch...i wnet with SPEC stage 2 clutch...great choice IMO.
let me know how it goes.
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Thats right dub,you did a new clutch and flywheel too,, what you gonna do with that old SVT flywheel? Or have you got rid of it already. If not, lets talk.
I drive a Ford, what else do you need to know??
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well, I called Bill last thurs so hopefully I'll have parts to do the job over the upcoming weekend.
Question - did you guys rent a tranny jack and if so where'd you get it? Hopefully I can get everything rounded up before hand to make this a smooth job.
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im not a big fan of stock clutches. Ill bring you mine  And scott im sure what you dont have(tools wise) i do. And are you planning on doing this with or without power tools? Because if you want i can bring my compressor and power tools. Id def. makes life alot easer.
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yeah - I heard you ripped the splines right off it! I'm a little scared of aftermarket right now - I figure a stocker should last at LEAST 60-80 under worst case - my high perf kevlar POS is dead at 30.
I have an electric impact wrench which works pretty good. I do need a good tq wrench for reassembly.
My plan is to work a few hours per night tonight and tomorow to do the "simple" one man stuff - hopefully leaving a pretty reasonable job for over the weekend. Even if it drags into next week (worst case) it'll still be okay.
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well what are you gonna do about the flywheel? do you have someone that is gonna resurface it? when? I def. think its gonna be a 2 weekend project. o and i dont have a tq wrench unfortunatly. Do you have a axel puller? you are gonna need one for sure. andd i do have one of those, And you need something to hold the motor up while the subframe and tranny is gone. I used a regular car jack but one of those motor hanger thinges we used on eric's car is a lot better and more secure. You also need a pretty big star socket, wich i have an assortment of sizes  If we put everything back together next weekend. Eric is much more likely to help being he has company this whole weekend. And i can assure you this, pulling and putting the tranny and subframe is a 3 man job.
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