[Rick Parker]

Keith:


Have someone depress the clutch and if you are using a slave cylinder outside of the bellhousing, visually check the amount of movement obtained by the release lever, it should be about 1.25-1.75 inches. If you do not get this much movement then the clutch pressure plate cannot release the disc. Does the clutch pedal have the same "Effort" as it did previously? The normal effort felt is the pressure exerted by the springs in the pressure plate being overcome by the leverage of the throw out bearing pressing on the fingers of the pressure plate. If you have limited or no movement it is then a hydraulic issue. If the slave is not leaking head for the master cylinder, be sure there is fluid in the resevoir and try bleeding. Then suspect the master cylinder if no progress is made. If you have an hydraulic throw out bearing it may have popped a seal, but that would be apperent from fluid leakage.

Lastly, it is possible with a remote slave to exert to much travel and pop the rubber cup out of the slave cylinder bore. This is usually caused by improper sizing ratios of the slave and master, thereby transfering too much fluid to the slave.

Rick


PS: In my daily driver, Ford SVT Contour I sometimes pull up to a stop or from neutral cannot get it in any gear, if I shut the engine off it slips right in. I think in my case that the disc is sticking to the flywheel as I have investigated most eveything else.