mjshealy

Hey all, i have a 92 civic LX. i am doing a automatic to manual conversion on my daily driver... i have 3 more days off But i got a new remanufactured flywheel, bolted it on, everything was fine. I have an OEM Exedy Clutch kit, and i put the disc on with the alignment tool through it into the pilot bearing, put the pressure plate over it onto the flywheel, but it's TOO THICK! the pressure plate barely goes over the 3 dowels in the flywheel, and theres a 1/4 inch gap between the pressure plate and the flywheel. Is this a normal occurence? will the pressure plate tighten down once i start tightening the bolts, or will it not work? i have looked up my part numbers for the clutch and everything is listed for my car. PLEASE HELP SOON!

B-outAteam

No the pressure plate should go on befor u put the bolts thro try to spin to the other hole of the pressure plate and see the dowels fit......it should fit in there befor u tighten the bolts

mjshealy

The dowels are all lined up...it's that the pressure plate won't go all the way on the flywheel...if i take the pressure plate and clutch disk and put them upside down on the workbench, the disk sticks up 1/4 inch above the top of the pressure plate.


Top of clutch disk ---> ____________________

Top of pressure plate---> |-----------------------------|

That's kind of an exaggeration, like i said it's 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch above it.

So the pressure plate is supposed to fully connect with the flywheel before i even start tightening bolts? what will happen if i just throw it together how it is?

B-outAteam

not trying to tell u doing it wrong but is the disc in there right

thumper64

I think there should be a little gap. At least that's how it was on 3 D series engines I've worked on.

mjshealy

ok sweet...thanks thumper. i went ahead and very carefully tightened them all little by little, in a diagonal pattern, and they all tightened down. i got them snugged, torqued them to 19 ft. lbs. with threadlocker, hopefully it'll work. the forks on the pressure plate are pretty much flat now, so we'll see how or if it works. Thanks for your help guys, and ill post up when i get the rest of this conversion done and let you all know how it went.