Flywheel spacer?

[weshole]

Well after seeing sooo many posts on trannies not wanting to shift properly after either a clutch or tranny swap and seeing a lot of possibilities exhausted, I kinda had an idea. I've been working at an auto parts store for about 10 years now and have noticed that certain shops call and order flywheel shims for cars when they do a clutch job. Now wouldn't it make sense to do the same on our cars when we do the same?

If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. It would also explain a lot of problems we DSM'ers seem to be having with hard shifting because when you surface the flywheel, you are setting the clutch farther away from the fork thus making the fork have to travel farther. And if the flywheel has been resurfaced more than once, then it makes it virtually impossible for the clutch to do its job because of limited effective travel of the fork/pressure plate. Now I could be wrong.

I guess I'm wondering if anybody else has thought of or dealt with this before or even any opinions on my thinking. Maybe there' such a product for our rides as a flywheel spacer.

 

[pneumo]

Yes, that is a good idea. Except us DSMers, being the creative and cheapazz bunch that we are, have found another way to do it. It's called shimming the pivot ball. It moves the clutch fork closer to the flywheel.