i performed an auto to manual (T56) swap on my 90 camaro.
the engine started just before removing the auto.
i tried to start it today for the first time and it clunked.
so i un bolted the starter and tried to turn her over by hand via breaker bar with no luck. shes stuck.

my professor tells me it could be flywheel bolts that are too long.
so tomorrow i am takin her apart to find out whats up.

any other ideas guys?
i coulda sworn the crank was turning when i was installing the flywheel. i had to use a flywheel holder.

thanks
Rick

 

unless you bought hardwear store bolts a lot longer than needed that isn't your problem. the flywheel would be thicker than a flex plate so if anything the bolts would of got shorter. do you have the correct flywheel/starter? you know not to use hardwear store bolts on the flywheel or flex plate right? it tried to turn over right? not a park or nutral safety switch issue?

 

sorry. it wasnt that. you were right.

as soon as i took off the tranny the clutch and flywheel spun freely.
thats when i noticed the scratches/chunks in the red pressure plate. i looked in the bellhousing at bolts that i put on from the inside and i saw the red paint and i knew then what it was.

i could have sworn that i couldnt get at the bolts from the outside...but i must have had one too many that night cuz i popped that bellhousing on the engine block and slid that tranny in so easily that i almost missed it. Last time i used the bolts to draw the tranny and bellhousing into the engine block. (creating the bind)

i knew it would start. and it did.

The next issue i had was the low clutch pedal. i bled the slave. couldnt be that. i pumped the pedal. nope. i shifted into first and it spun my tires in the air. i put the tires on the ground and i could not get it into first.

i adjusted the clutch master cylinder rod to a longer setting and it brought the pedal way up. PERFECT. smooth shift into first. ease out of the clutch and voila...i was off.

first steps my baby has taken in months. i got to the top of second. wow.....thats the fasted ive gone in over a year. (she was debilitated by a blown auto that wouldnt shift out of first)
now she is proud to be a 6 speed.

 

auto not getting out of first probably be bad or disconnected modulator valve.

manual trans flywheel bolts are longer than auto trans flexplate bolts, not many ppl seem to understand or agrre on that though, but ive been through it alot in the past, i keep both lengths sets around here

good luck