I was thinking more of some ShopVac parts for this one

 

temp diff inside and outside the air box (while car is parked), 60degree evening. Still have to block the side of the radiator and the frame rail

 

F this car man. (just read about it) I got the clutch fork/TOB issue today

 

??

 

Throw out bearing fell out of place. I have genuine TOB, not sure if this is a common thing

 

ACT monoloc is a must on any pull type clutch

 

seems like it, and some "clutch fork stop"

 

Time to drop the trans? Would.be my first time. Should I be getting a new clutch set as well? Probably less than 4k on these exedys. Thanks evo bros

 

I hate that OE clip. First clutch job I did I went to step on the clutch to back it off the lift and it came apart. I had just finished buttoning it all up. 9pm at night and I was ripping the trans back out again.

 

I'm trying to think positively lol. this will give me a chance to strip the (Shep's) paint off the trans.
Did you get the monoloc?

 

I didn't, mainly because I had the car torn down on a lift I use regularly and couldn't have it sitting there waiting. That was 9ish years ago and every time I NLTS that car it's always in the back of my mind that it'll blow the TOB off again

 

You don't really need the clutch stop with the monolock. What happens on OEM TOB is the ring pops off the back side and that cant be pushed back in. If a monoloc pops out you can pop it back in. Though I've never heard of one popping out.

 

ok cool. i was on the fence and had it on my STM shopping cart.

in addition to upgraded clutch line, i see that the rubber bumper on the clutch pedal fell off. what a POS

 

Up to you if you install or not. I have it as insurance the collar can't pop out again. I didn't know you can snap a monoloc back in (havent had it come out), but I'd rather keep it from coming out in the first place.
Considering the extremes some of us go above and beyond what's necessary, I don't think of a fork stop as being excessive. Cheap insurance IMO. In the end it's all preference.

 

The only thing to be careful on the fork stop is as the clutch wears the full release point changes. So you can set it to be good with the appropriate gap but a few thousand miles later with wear it may now be resting on that stop without you knowing. To the point of preventing full engagement and keeping thrust bearing load (4G63s don't like constant thrust bearing load). This happened to me on my first clutch install before the Monoloc was as big of a thing. Now I wouldn't run without it and never bothered with the forks stop since.

Edit: Lol, I just looked over and my old one is sitting on my toolbox still. If you want it to play with just send me $15 for shipping. Its the OG STM stop.