Tranny Grinds on Shifting into Reverse

[Berkeley and Bill Conner]

Raymond Kawski wrote:

> I was going to say that you may not be disengaging the clutch
> all the way.  You should have about 1/4" of slop in the cable.

Yes -- it feels like the clutch is not disengaging all the way when the
engine and tranny are hot.  I have much less than 1/4 inch of slop in the
cable.  I can only move the clutch release arm about 2 mm.

I'm thinking two things, Ray.

1.  Maybe the aluminum flywheel expands more than the OEM one when it gets
hot and reduces the clearance between the flywheel and the pressure plate,
thereby preventing the full release of the clutch as now adjusted.  This
should diminish or go away as the clutch disc breaks in and/or wears a
bit.

2.  Rather than just cranking all the slack out of the cable, maybe I
should try raising the clutch pedal to get more overall travel, and then
readjusting the cable.

Anyway, thanks for your response -- let me know if you have any additional
thoughts.

Bill Conner