If you have the flywheel re-surfaced, do you need to shim it to bring it back to stock depth or will the system self adjust for this? If you do need to shim it, does anybody sell the shims?

Thanks,

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not enough material is removed to make shimming required. the gear on the starter will still engage.

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You can resurface it until you're blue in the face and it will never affect the starter alignment to the ring gear. They remove material from the front, not the back, and the ring gear/pinion gear alignment is gained from the mating of the rear of the flywheel to the crankshaft.

However, no, you do not need a flywheel shim. Especially on hydraulic clutches it's usually not needed. Sometimes on "manual" clutches they will shim it a bit to counteract the resurfacing to make the PP fingers be where they were before to make the linkage adjustment easier. If you do have a the older linkage, a rule of thumb is to shim it to a max of .060 (this usually requires 3 - 4 resurfaces of the flywheel to accomplish .060 defecit).

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[This message has been edited by 84FTA (edited October 21, 2000).]

 

Usually not needed., but. I had ALOT of promlems with mine. Even with the clutch bled and the pedal all the way down, the clutch wouldn't disengage enough for me to shift. IF that is the problem, you can fix it by fabricating a longer clutch pushrod from some 1/2" steel rod. You'll have to play with the lengeth to get it right...mine ended up needing to be bout 1.25" longer. easiest way is to make it way longer, and grind it down till it feels right.

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Jester, I'd like to hear more about how you did that. I was told that some hydraulic systems come with an adjustment screw (I am yet to find one) so that it can be adjusted. I was having a similiar problem, the slave cylinder can only push out as much as it goes in and if the clutch fork is "at rest" and the slave is 3/4 out still, than you only have 1/4 of the slaves throw to disengage.

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1984 WS6 Trans Am Hartop
Former L69 Car under restoration
1984 WS6 Trans Am T-top car
4-bolt main 350, headers, Holley 650, T-5 and 3.23's.
Daily driver and restoration