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Author Topic: New Flywheel and Clutch, can't get into gear.  (Read 10785 times)

Offline r5gtt

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Re: New Flywheel and Clutch, can't get into gear.
« Reply #30 on: July 08, 2016, 01:27:03 pm »
Progress  :laugh:

Dont know how you managed to under tighten those bolts  :slap:
« Last Edit: July 08, 2016, 01:28:57 pm by r5gtt »

Offline ChazGTI

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Re: New Flywheel and Clutch, can't get into gear.
« Reply #31 on: July 08, 2016, 03:06:11 pm »
All Sorted! Can't believe it was that.

Can't look over the basics!
Not sure how I managed to under tighten them that badly, but then again I didn't have a torque wrench that fitted the 12 point socket so I had to improvise.
Lesson learned!

Thank you all for the fantastic help and suggestions  :happy2:

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Re: New Flywheel and Clutch, can't get into gear.
« Reply #32 on: July 08, 2016, 03:31:35 pm »
Great news. Hope they're tight enough now, big of thread lock is normally a good idea
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Re: New Flywheel and Clutch, can't get into gear.
« Reply #33 on: July 08, 2016, 05:11:42 pm »
Well as @Dan_FR had pointed out, I had under-tightened the PP bolts. Just finished slowly tightening them through the starter hole while a friend rotate the crank.

Tested the clutch and now the PP stays still like it should. Gonna put everything back together and HOPEFULLY all will be good.
Result!!! :-)

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Re: New Flywheel and Clutch, can't get into gear.
« Reply #34 on: July 08, 2016, 06:02:21 pm »
Great news. Hope they're tight enough now, big of thread lock is normally a good idea

Yep used some loctite blue!

Man, the difference in a new clutch and flywheel after the state mine were in is so bloody nice!