kinda weird that this was bumped the same night i did my ranny removal, or should i say attempt. Its actually the 2nd clutch job on my evo but im having problems releaseing the throw out bearing.Nothing has worked. Cannot rotate the screwdriver fotr some reason. Tried turning the crank but with no luck. Dont know where to go from here.

What are the tell-tale signs of a released tob? How should the exposed end of the clutch fork behave?

Thanks!

 

Here is a good excersise to find out how easily the throw-out bearing can be removed from the pressure plate. Use your new throw out bearing and new pressure plate to try it out and see how it works. Just push the throw out bearing in to connect it to the pressure plate. Now, press the throw out bearing against the new plate and slide a flat-head under it to 'pop' it off. While keeping pressure against the wedge collar, just pry it off as one single unit-like there is now NO space between the wedge collar and the throw out bearing anymore. You'll find out how easily it just 'pops' off. I did this after having no luck with with my old one in the trans, and bending the crap out of the wedge collar! Finally I went back in with my newly learned experience... moved the clutch fork to press the throw out bearing towards the pressure plate and bam, got it the first try... well after about 30 try's... the key is, it that you have to move the fork as you pry... and it comes right off. It's like a 1-2 quick motion. Try the excersise haha you'll see what I mean

 

The clutch fork will have to be acuated to push the throw out bearing towards the pressure plate. Now, since there is NO space between the wedge collar and the TOB, stick that flat head right in between the edge of the pressure plate and the edge of the wedge collar. Now what you must do is KEEP the wedge collar compressed AGAINST the TOB as you release the clutch fork in order for it to move the TOB away from the plate. As in: as you are turning the screw driver to move the TOB away from the pressure plate, you have to guide it away with the clutch fork as to keep NO space between the wedge collar and the TOB. You'll know when you have it released. The space between the edge of the wedge collar and the pressure plate is noticable in comparison to the before-since there was no space. I hope this helps... and definitely! DO the excersise to see how it works first!

 

there will be no pressure on the fork. It will move freely back and forth. Just be patient with it.

when you rotate the screwdriver, and the clutch fork moves itself in the opposite direction, give it a few taps with the hammer back in the original direction when you compressed it to get the screwdriver in there.

If that made any sense, its late

 

sheesh, I feel stupid. I must be trying to hard. First off, my fork is in the 'B' position and it doesn't move freely to the 'A' position. It only moves maybe 2mm back and forth. I have been prying all over the place messing up the wedge collar inside. I dont have a new one to learn off of since I am parting the car out and not replacing the clutch.

the clutch inside the trans happens to be one of those purple Exedy looking clutches if that makes a difference.

 

Pm me a price on that pretty used exedy clutch.

When you are prying into the wedge collar and pulling the lever towards the driver side and you begin seperating the TOB from the pressure plate pull the lever towards the pass side and it should flop out without much trouble. At this point it is or should be seperated. The TOB on an Exedy is the same or very similar to the stock or an ACT setup.

 

Well I'm bumping this thread cause I just started my clutch install in my Evo VI. Not too much is really different between the VI and VIII. In fact is the tranny is the exact same between the two.

I'm posting a pic of my afro-engineered slide hammer. The local autoparts stores wanted to charge me up to 300euro for a slide hammer. I made my own for 5 euro.

 

I love the creative enginnering. It looks like that would be very effective indeed. Way to post so everyone else can see.

What clutch are you going with?

 

I wanted to go stock put the cheapest place I could find one wanted to charge me 500euro just for the clutch. The damn exchange rate is killing me.

Anyway I went with the Exedy stage one + ACT prolite flywheel.

 

I'm sure this has been mentioned in here (I didn't read any of the posts really) but evomoto has an install writeup. Only problem with it is that you cant see the pics as they are, you have to have the internet wherever you're doing the install. I've condensed the pix that correspond to the steps so that it is an easier reference and you dont need the internet. Took me about 2 hrs lol.
Remember: none of this is my work, all the real effort was made by evomoto.com
link to their instructions: evomoto install
massive pic concentration: right click, save as

 

Thank you for posting that. I am sure it will help some people out!

 

I hope so! However... I have it on my school's server.. it won't be up forever.

 

thanks, the OP helped out a lot.

 

All that is holding the tranny onto the car now is the spline for the clutch disc and the throw-out bearing
You must now seperate the throwout bearing from the pressure plate


How in the hell do you do this i practiced on the new clutch kit and i see how it works but how do you do that thru the little hole in the tranny any pointers let me know

 

Ill know after this weekend!