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lateral
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 Posted: Tue May 13, 2025 1:59 am Post subject: Re: Clutch Centering tool |
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jlrftype7
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2025 10:47 am Post subject: Re: Clutch Centring tool |
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Hi guys
I've started the process and luckily I had a spare gearbox so that I could figure out how to get the E Clip out.
Here's a photo of the result.
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Yes! This is such a cool feature of the 004 transmission.
I actually owned one for years and drove it for a while before discovering this feature.
It makes changing the clutch so much easier because you can pull the engine back maybe 1.75" and then straight down with teh shaft out of the way.
Another thing....if you plan to go ahead and replace the transmission input shaft seal....go ahead and pull the shaft all the way out of the transmission and then used the shaft as a clutch centering tool. Then replace teh seal...then install the shaft pulled back slightly and then install the engine and slide the shaft into place. Ray |
Reminds me of changing the clutch on a SAAB 900. With the unique drivetrain configuration that they had, you leave the vehicle on the ground, remove the hood for the most working room at the nose of the vehicle.
Pull the removeable input shaft out of the transmission section that's behind the backwards mounted engine, insert the 2 spring rod type tools into the pressure plate with the clutch pedal depressed to allow the next step to happen.
Then unbolt pressure plate and remove the clutch disc with it.
Installation is the reverse. Your only sticking point was that you had to have a working clutch hydraulic system to be able to depress the clutch and install those 2 rod tools into the pressure plate section.
I may never work on anything like it again. They were unique 
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raygreenwood
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Location: Oklahoma City
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2025 12:24 pm Post subject: Re: Clutch Centring tool |
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| jlrftype7 wrote: |
| raygreenwood wrote: |
| lateral wrote: |
Hi guys
I've started the process and luckily I had a spare gearbox so that I could figure out how to get the E Clip out.
Here's a photo of the result.
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Yes! This is such a cool feature of the 004 transmission.
I actually owned one for years and drove it for a while before discovering this feature.
It makes changing the clutch so much easier because you can pull the engine back maybe 1.75" and then straight down with teh shaft out of the way.
Another thing....if you plan to go ahead and replace the transmission input shaft seal....go ahead and pull the shaft all the way out of the transmission and then used the shaft as a clutch centering tool. Then replace teh seal...then install the shaft pulled back slightly and then install the engine and slide the shaft into place. Ray |
Reminds me of changing the clutch on a SAAB 900. With the unique drivetrain configuration that they had, you leave the vehicle on the ground, remove the hood for the most working room at the nose of the vehicle.
Pull the removeable input shaft out of the transmission section that's behind the backwards mounted engine, insert the 2 spring rod type tools into the pressure plate with the clutch pedal depressed to allow the next step to happen.
Then unbolt pressure plate and remove the clutch disc with it.
Installation is the reverse. Your only sticking point was that you had to have a working clutch hydraulic system to be able to depress the clutch and install those 2 rod tools into the pressure plate section.
I may never work on anything like it again. They were unique |
Yes!
While you still have to remove the engine on the type 4....it does make it much easier.
I drove a 1983 Saab 900!
Changing the clutch was very unique. Pull off the plastic bell housing cover over the flywheel on the front of the engine. You are now looking at the Clutch and flywheel....literally 1-2 minutes.
Then, pop the cover off the drive sprocket and pull the splined drive pinion forward with a bolt threaded into it and the clutch and flywheel are now disengaged.
Yes....then step on the clutch and slip in the ring shaped tool to prop the pressure plate in the release position....take 8 bolts and the clutch and PP pull right out. So simple. 15-20 minutes and you can change the clutch.
And yes..... if you are unlucky and the clutch master or especially slave cylinder are out of commission....you cannot operate the clutch to installed the ring tool to remove the pressure plate. If you cannot remove the pressure plate.....you cannot remove the slave cylinder.
There is a special tool/pry bar for this. I had to do it with a large prybar and a lot of cursing.
Ray |
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lateral
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2025 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: Clutch Centering tool |
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The engines out and is in the process o f being rebuilt etc. The tinware is all being powder coated black with the fan housing silver.
Here's a photo of the engine.
It came out surprisingly easily.
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