long overdue update
haven't posted to this blog in a LONG time but i'm drunk and i feel like talking ( i'm that kinda' drunk)
reading my last post it seems i was in the middle of a clutch replacement. turns out my clutch fork had touched my pressure plate (probably due to my pressure plate wearing out and compressing unevenly) and the pressure plate fingers knocked a tang off my clutch fork. ironically, my clutch functioned better with only one (of two) tangs. whod've thought!
either way, replaced it with a hayes street clutch. a little bit easier on the knee, but holds just as well as the last clutch (OEM) so that's a good deal. shifting is much easier and everything worked just fine.
of immediate importance now, my front rear A-arm bushing is shot to shit and i can feel it shifting around on hard turns. think she needs a tuneup since she's guzzling gas and struggling on hard acceleration. god knows my valves and maybe even pistons are fucked up since that timing chain mishap. few of my old paint repairs are rusting through again, hopefully gonna get a load of POR-15 to deal with that soon. and my trans is running REAL hot and probably struggling....i should look into a rebuild. my linkage rattles a helluva lot as well so i should take a look at that as well (hurst). shouldn't be hard...would be nice to have some quiet shifting, though.
reading my last post it seems i was in the middle of a clutch replacement. turns out my clutch fork had touched my pressure plate (probably due to my pressure plate wearing out and compressing unevenly) and the pressure plate fingers knocked a tang off my clutch fork. ironically, my clutch functioned better with only one (of two) tangs. whod've thought!
either way, replaced it with a hayes street clutch. a little bit easier on the knee, but holds just as well as the last clutch (OEM) so that's a good deal. shifting is much easier and everything worked just fine.
of immediate importance now, my front rear A-arm bushing is shot to shit and i can feel it shifting around on hard turns. think she needs a tuneup since she's guzzling gas and struggling on hard acceleration. god knows my valves and maybe even pistons are fucked up since that timing chain mishap. few of my old paint repairs are rusting through again, hopefully gonna get a load of POR-15 to deal with that soon. and my trans is running REAL hot and probably struggling....i should look into a rebuild. my linkage rattles a helluva lot as well so i should take a look at that as well (hurst). shouldn't be hard...would be nice to have some quiet shifting, though.
