TOB failure...bent shift fork?

[overdoseheroin]

ok, ive gone through 2 throw out bearings in the last few months. one was with an SBR 3500 and oem TOB, it started making hellacious noises and i changed it. now im with an ACT2100 and the ACT throw out bearing and it was cool for a while, now you can hear it make the typical junk throw out bearing noise at idle, and sometimes on startup theres a funny vibration coming through the clutch pedal, and as soon as it is depressed even halfway it stops. only thing i can think of is a bent clutch fork..any suggestions?

 

[94Jettameowpsst]

I cant really help you, but i think the same thing happened to my car. Act clutch and tob.....needless to say, it destroyed my clutch when it got stuck in the splines of the cluth plate

 

[spyder97gs]

I'm experiencing the same problems you are. I don't think it's a bent shift fork, as much as a junky TOB.

I had one fail in 500+ miles, now i'm experiencing exactly what you describe after 3000 or so miles. I'm not prepared to pull the tranny again for it. It's really quite disgusting. I've got an OEM in now also.

 

[GritsnGravy]

Make sure the clutch pedal free play is right. If your throw out bearing is riding on the pressure plate, it will fail sooner.

 

[overdoseheroin]

Make sure the clutch pedal free play is right. If your throw out bearing is riding on the pressure plate, it will fail sooner.

explain clutch pedal free play please. and if i had shimmed the pivot ball too much..would that have anything to do with it. i shimmed it with two 1/8'' washers.

 

[JX6]

I had the same problems when i first got my dsm.
I thought my transmission was shot because it didn't want to go in any gear though.I would press the clutch i and the car would die.I thought I got a cw car.The fork turned out to be fine for me.It turned out that the aftermarket tob the guy put in before I bought the car wasn't smooth in the inside ring.It chewed up the metal piece the tob slides on and somehow destroyed the clutch the guy had in the car.