Trouble shifting gears after a rear leaf spring change

Hawkeye58 · Sep 21, 2009

Hi all

Went to go to school today and couldn't drive my BII. I had done a Rear Leaf change adding springs from a Explorer yesterday. It raised my rear roughly 1.5". Now this morning it struggles to go into each gear grinding slightly on each gear. I have a FM145 installed behind my '88 2.9L with a 4.0 clutch and flywheel and starter. After my spring change it drove fine last night, but after sitting all night it then acts this way? I find it very odd. Any ideas here?

Hawkeye

Trouble shifting gears after a rear leaf spring change

martin · Sep 21, 2009

Check the fluid level in your clutch master cylinder.

Bogdon · Sep 21, 2009

The only thing I can think of is the ujoint may be binding due to the pinion angle change. But that is a long shot. Sounds more like an unrelated clutch issue.

throttlejockey689 · Sep 21, 2009

1.5" lift isn't really enough to cause any problems with pinion angle, so I'm thinkin you just got lucky enough to have a part go bad at the same time as the lift. I would say that either the mster cylinder or slave cylinder is going bad

Hawkeye58 · Sep 23, 2009

Well I'm still confused. The fluid level is good, I checked that first. The slave, Clutch, Throw out, and Flywheel are all brand new this spring. Now get this...
I go and drive it yesterday and it stopped grinding but was hard shifting. So, I keep doing laps around in the neighborhood and it gets better and better. Now I have driven to and from several places in town and it's back to normal.
I can't explain it.

Hawkeye :icon_confused:

BlackBII · Sep 24, 2009

My vote goes to a funky slave cylinder. Maybe got some air in it?

Trouble shifting gears after a rear leaf spring change

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