Thread: Help with trans issue

I have an issue here. A few weeks ago I blew my clutch and it took out my pressure plate and flywheel. So I now bought a jim wolf flywheel and pressure plate with an act clutch 6 puck. I have the full thing installed and put my vehicle on the ground, started it, it started up fine. Then went to put the vehicle into gear. And nothing no matter how hard I try I couldn't get the car into gear. Now when I installed the new items and had everything hooked up, and went to put the clutch cable (new) onto the bracket the cable all the way tight still had play.. the transmission arm has a lot of play in it. It seems excessive. So I called a few of my buddies and they told me that with aftermarket parts like that it is possible that I might need to put a spacer at the back of the bracket between the cable. After the spacer was put in the pedal felt perfect but there is still the same issue.

Please I need help. Any ideas.

Thanks,
Phil

did you replace the throwout bearing and check it's retaining clips?

^^ this

also did you replace the clutch cable? is it generic or OEM nissan?

The cable is oem nissan... and the throwout bearing is newish but the clips I didn't check

Did you put the disk in facing the correct way?

Yeah I put it in the right way, but I didn't think it was that confusing to put in. It will really only go in right one way. Now the interesting part is that when I was trying to put the pressure plate on it didn't seem like the pressure plate was mating up properly with the Jim wolf flywheel. So I pull the little dowle pins out a little bit and it lined up perfectly, only a fraction of an inch. I've done this kind of job about 5 or 6 times now so I'm not exactly a noob but I have dropped so much money into this car now and I'm starting understand the money pit aspect. And I'm just plain tired of it.

Thanks

The spacer should have fixed the issue. It sounds like the clutch just never disengages.

Try jacking up the front tires and see if you can get the thing in gear, and then push the clutch all the way in and see if the tires come to a complete stop (or turn just barely) or if they just keep on spinning.

Exactly, the clutch doesn't feel like it's disengaging. And when the car is up I can't get it into gear. I started it in gear while it was up. The wheels were still spinning at the same pace they did not slow when I pressed the clutch. So the clutch is not disengaging.

it might be that 6puck clutch...ACT clutches are known for failure..

take apart, redo. something is installed incorrectly. or you recieved incorrect parts. those should be the only two options.