Glad to offer a few words... ?Perhaps you could start by repositioning the "rubber buffer" under the floor boards - this can be done in 15 minutes ($30 mechanic's bill?) All you have to do is take out the clam floor board pieces that are around the pedals and wiggle the rubber bung upwards until it is right under the actual pedal pad. ?Then adjust the lunkge "tighter". This alone might let the clutch work acceptably.
Cheers and best of luck. ?PUN.
On 2021-06-01, at 8:24 PM, AWORKOFMARC wrote:
Dude... As always... You come through. You are the friggen BEST!?
Thank you sir. I will relay this to my mechanic
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Date: 6/1/21 8:20 PM (GMT-08:00)
Subject: Re: [WillysTech] Shifting Nightmare that wont quit.
I had an even worse case of new clutch-itis with our wagon. ?I'm convinced the new clutch pressure plate doesn't have the same "throw" as the old one ? But I'll be damned if the whole thing's coming out again unless absolutely necessary. ?At first, I took all the slack (worn components) out of the old horrible Willys clutch mechanism, but this made no difference.
In the end, I shimmed the pressure plate 34 thousands on the flywheel (perhaps yet another of my unforgivable sins) but what really made the difference was removing the rubber buffer on the pedal, just below the floor boards. ?This allowed the pedal to come up higher and therefore have a longer throw. ?This was the only way to get the clutch to release. ?Even with this unorthodox trick, there is zero free play.
What you really have to be sure about, with the clutch pedal released, is whether or not the throw-out bearing touches the pressure plate - it shouldn't. ?This is easy to check on a Willys.
Pavel up North
On 2021-06-01, at 7:31 PM, gandre wrote:
Sounds like the clutch in my FC-170. I have been fiddling with the linkage attempting to find the sweet spot¡. I too want to know the answer!
Got my Willys back today.
Im going nuts. Just replaced the dang clutch, and the throwout bearing, and transfer external case and some gear repair inside the transfer case...?
When I depress the clutch pedal, going into 1st or R every time I have to wait at least 3 to 5 seconds for the flywheel or whatever to it is to stop spinning so it accepts the shifting without grinding.? EVERY. TIME. However if I first shift into 2nd and then into 1st, it accepts the shift w/o grinding or having to pause the 3 seconds. They played with the rpms, they played with clutch adjustments. To where now the clutch is set so as Im releasing the pedal there's nothing, nothing, nothing and then at the top of the release I got about an inch or 2 and ... woosh it suddenly engages.?
No problems shifting into 2 or 3rd, or back.
Any ideas anyone? Im getting desperate does anyone know old school transmision wizard in the Los Angeles area?
HELLLLPPP!
