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When it's tucked into place around the inner part of the shell, it should hold the fingers of the pressure plate in their depressed position when you loosen the bolts holding pressure plate housing to flywheel, to remove the 3 fat nuts. The 3 fat nuts should drop out freely at that point. Then it should all be fairly loose and when squeezed into a package, clutch disk, pressure plate, release bearing and slave cylinder should all slide out, assuming tranny input shaft has been withdrawn far enough.
So since you say it snaps back against the flywheel, I'm not sure you've got it all right so I'll repeat here my advice on how-to:
Remove EVERY OTHER one of pressure plate to flywheel bolts, no matter which ones. Loosen the other three to almost out.
Then pry pressure plate housing up a little off the locating dowels, enough to slip your three fat nuts under the "ears" where pressure plate forging comes out through raised places in the pressed-steel bell shaped housing, and pop them right where the short link straps running to the pressed housing are riveted to the forged plate part, so the rivet head holds the nut in place. Turn flywheel by hand or push with a big screwdriver to get at all three places to put the nuts.
I say "pry" but it should be under no real pressure then, just sitting stuck a little to dowel pins.
THEN re-tighten the three pressure plate-to-flywheel bolts that you left in place. This will pull the pressure plate housing down to the flywheel surface but the nuts will hold the pressure plate forged part itself well up off the clutch plate, in effect the same as if you had forced the spring fingers in by stepping on a working clutch pedal and had the slave push the release bearing into the ends of the fingers. So those fingers will in turn depress even though they haven't been pressed.
With the fingers depressed, you slide the special tool into place atop the fingers, under the little projecting tabs in the pressure plate housing. It should sit right there by its natural springiness.
Then as you loosen the three pressure plate-to-flywheel bolts, the fingers should rise just a little, CLAMPING the special tool tight into position, but then will rise no more and pressure plate will come off flywheel with its pressure released and all should slide out if held tight enough together.
posted by 70.105.225...
, Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:38:14
, Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:00:40
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