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Clutch will not engage at all, please help

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Clipso 1

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Sep 3, 2003
I had replaced the clutch approxamtly 2 weeks before I got this problem. My friend and I were driveing down the road trying to tune with dsmlink. We figured out if I pull timing I could boost past 4k rpms. So we go out to a back road to tune on with no traffic. I start boosting in third gear and all of a sudden it was like i pushed the clutch pedal. It just stopped holding the power and the engine went up to the rev limiter. So I pushed the pedal down and pulled it out of gear and put it in forth, nothing. I tried second, nothing. No gears would do anything. I could hear the TOB makeing noise but nothing else. I finally pulled off the road shut the car off and looked under the hood. Nothing looks broken the slave cylender still had pressure on it no metal chunks anywhere. I started it up and tried again no gears do anything. you can put it in gear without pushing the clutch but it still doesnt move at all. the TOB whines alittle but thats it. The car had to get towed home. So I thought i must have broken the tranny. So I bought another tranny that I knew worked. Put it in and drove with no problems for about 3 miles and then the same thing happened while babying the car. I have rebleed the clutch. Still nothing.
Here is the list of things I have tried:
Replaced the master cylinder
Replaced the slave cylinder
Clutch only has 100 miles on it
Replaced tranny
bleed clutch
has a new clutch fork and pivot ball
new stainless steel line to delete fluid resivor ( I did bend the line that goes to the resivor during the install but I think its not kinked now )
checked fluid in tranny
Thats all I can think of. I really need help it has been sitting for months now and I am going to have to sell it soon but I got to get it running again soon.

Thanks for any help,
Jeremy
 
im with allboost......sound slike a clutch to me take the clutch out and take it back to where ever you got it smash them in the teeth with it....and get a new one then tell them about the best dentist you know of
 
Did you break it in? If it only has 100 miles on it you shouldnt be trying to tune with DSM link yet, give it atleast 300 miles or you can warp it from the heat. ;)
 
Thanks for the input I will be taking it to the shop next week.
I was only trying to tune it to keep it running right, not to make alot of power with it.

Thanks,
Jeremy
 
Well I wanted to let you all know how stupid I am. There are 2 bolts that are souppossed to go from the engine block side to the tranny, well I had put them all in on the tranny side so there were 2 bolts that werent doing anything at all. So when I pushed the clutch it would separte the block from the tranny. This is why I shattered 3 clutch disc and this last one the all the splines were "eaten" off by the tranny. I dont know if this will help any one else out but I wanted to at least post and let everyone know what it took to fix the problem.

Thanks,
Jeremy
 
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