How Many Throw Out Bearings did you Break Installing Yours?

[TermTrky]

I'm on number 2. First one, I dropped the transmission 3 inches onto wood, the clutch fork flew forward, and the throw-out bearing flew out. Broken clip.

My buddy special ordered 3 because he knew what was going to happen

Why are the clips so fragile? Does the T/O even hold pressure? The clips are there to prevent spinning, right?

I'm tying the clutch fork to the case, so it keeps the T/O bearing in all of the way so no more accidents happen!

 

[vanilla gorilla]

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Ive done 3 clutch swaps in my eclipses, no problems ever.

 

[DSM_PWR]

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ive dont countless Clutch Jobs and never once or even heard of this...

Maybe you should step away from the car ...

 

[JusMX141]

Not-a-one.

 

[TermTrky]

Haha. Well, two of my friends had the worst time ever. Mine was a sign... Shouldn't re-use the old T/O

 

[eclipse94turbo]

i also did countless installs no problems. if it takes 3 to get it right pay someone to do it for you

 

[Colt4G63 also]

I've probably replaced over fifty clutches and never had that problem, nor have I ever heard of this. I did cut my finger once while hoisting an rx7 transmission from the floor to over my head by hand. It sucked because even though I was getting showered in my own blood, I had to stay the course until I could get some bolts started.

I always use a transmission jack from now on.

 

[malibu80]

Pretty much every throwout bearing has some sort of tab to hold it to the fork. The reason the little tabs are there is entirely for installation. Its been a while since I've done this tranny but tabs, molded wires w/e they are all the same. There should be no reason that the fork would jump forward and pop your throw out bearing off. Make sure that you have a level surface for the tranny to be jacked up on and a little trick I learned is to slap a bottle/scissor jack between the motor and firewall area to push the motor over and stab the tranny in place! Actually I watched a guy manuever this unit for over half an hour in place but takes me minutes with this trick.