FM-145 Clutch failure

[tenga]

So the problems never end.
Last night I had just got done from a drive, I pull into the tacobell drive through and put in in neutral. When I go to put it back into first, it wont go in, and wont go into to any other gears either. After about a minute of trying it goes in, and everything is fine until today. I drove over to a buddys and parked, and when I start my drive home after a bit of driving it starts making a very faint scraping (best way to describe it, didnt exactly sound like scraping, and wasnt any grinding coming from the transmission) when I push in the clutch to shift. I get home, park, end driving somewhere again and then parking one more time. I go out one more time and I cant shift at one of the stop signs, I finally get it in, get home and pull into my spot. I push in my pedal to put in neutral for a minute and right when I do that faint scraping gets louder and louder and then stops. After it stopped I couldn't get in into any gear while it was running, but could when it was off.
Slave cylinder has always had a small leak, but it is working fine to my knowledge.
Im thinking its the pressure plate but im not too sure.
Here is a video of the clutch movement after I parked it: http://youtu.be/4Fpnq__JiVo?t=31s

 

[Explorin94]

I would bet that you had a throwout bearing fail. That means the transmission needs to come out.

 

[tenga]

I would bet that you had a throwout bearing fail. That means the transmission needs to come out.

No doubt about that my friend, Im thinking about picking up a new pressure plate and slave cylinder because of the leaking old one. Should come with a throwout bearing if Im not mistaken. I just want to make sure its not some other bearing or something, but I guess I wont really know til I crack it open.

 

[Explorin94]

You're right about the slave coming with the t-bearing with it. I would do the whole clutch while you have it apart. Look into the individual pieces IE clutch disc, pressure plate pilot bearing and of course the slave. You may find them cheaper by themselves and you won't end up with 2 t-bearings which one comes with the clutch kit.

 

[tenga]

You're right about the slave coming with the t-bearing with it. I would do the whole clutch while you have it apart. Look into the individual pieces IE clutch disc, pressure plate pilot bearing and of course the slave. You may find them cheaper by themselves and you won't end up with 2 t-bearings which one comes with the clutch kit.

I will take a close look, the clutch disc being the least of my worries though. According to the last owner the friction disc is a heavy duty version, he said stage two, but i took it with a grain of salt. I can testify the its the most grippy clutch Ive used though, and wasn't losing any of it right before this started. Who knows though, haha.

 

[LIMA BEAN]

I prefere the bronze pilot bushing as opposed to the needle bearing type.