Just before I left home at the end of Christmas break, I was having a very hard time getting my car to go into gear. It had happened before so I knew it was either the slave cylinder just needing to be bled or the cylinder was going out. I just talked to my dad who was working on it and he pulled the cylinder off to check it out and said the pushrod that actuates the yoke was worn down considerably and the socket it rides in was dry. He made a new one from a piece of round bar with the ends rounded down and 1/8" longer than the pushrod he pulled out. Said it solved the hard shifting immediately.

My question is more conserned with the throwout bearing and the slave cylinder in general. I know the LS1s use a hydraulic throwout bearing instead of the slave cylinder/yoke setup like ours and LT1 cars. I was looking in the Summit catalog and they have a hydraulic throwout bearing made by Howe Racing Enterprises that is made for the T-5. I was wondering if anyone has used this, had experience with it, or has heard any good/bad things about it. I'm definitely considering getting this despite its $150 cost, which seems reasonable enought to me, but I wanted other opinions on it first. I'm getting tired of having problems with the cheap slave cylinders I keep getting when one goes out.

Summit has the throwout bearing, part number HRE-82876, but no information on their website. Price is $147.39.

 

sorry i cannot answer your question, but i thought about making my own pushrod longer too because everytime, without fail, when i put my tranny in reverse it grinds. and i really have to floor the clutch to shift into the other gears too. sorry to interrupt your thread...

 

no one?

 

http://www.howeracing.com/DriveTrain...w-HydStock.htm

http://www.howeracing.com/Adobe/T-5Docs.pdf


and some info at Summit:

http://store.summitracing.com/produc...ype=ecat&l=HRE



Hmmm...this should make installing a true Dual exhaust much, much easier.