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Hello to all and thanks for reading this.
I have problem I cannot seem to figure out and is driving me nuts
When I first got my SAAB I rebuilt the clutch cylinders and the brakes and got it running. I took it out for a drive and although it shifted and drove fine, I discovered that the clutch was slipping badly and besides, the engine was missing 2 cylinders. So, I took it all down and pulled the engine. Indeed the clutch was right down to the rivits. Some gentlment who used to rally SAABS had been kind enough to send me his extra parts and with it I recieved a NOS pressure plate and clutch disk. I installed those and a new throwout bearing and put it back together.
Engine ran great but I now found that my clutch had the oposite problem. Now IT WONT RELEASE. Even with my adjustment screw all the way in the throwout wouldn't even contact the pressure plate. I shimmed the slave cylinder and got them to contact. It would just barely begin to release when the arm would hit the spinning pressure plate and grind. So I took it out again and tried the origonal throwout bearing and pressure plate with new disk. Same problem, pulled it again.
Iam at my wits end. The only thing that seems fishy to me is this. When bolting the pressure plate to the flywheel it it snugs up when the bolting surface is still 1/4 inch from the flywheel. By the time it is torqued all the way down, the forks (the release plate)of the pressure plate seem to me to be all the way in already. The release plate is at this point already level with the rest of the pressure plate and does not stick out at all. It seems to me that the bearing doesn't even have a chance to contact this and if it did I am not sure how much further in it will go.
Can anyone help. I have checked my clutch disk against another NOS one from the factory and it is to spec.
Please please please help as I am soon to pour out my rage on this nice little car.
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