Hi!
I'm putting in a new Exedy disk and pressure plate. I had a machine shop resurface my stock flywheel. They resurfaced both the disk friction part of the flywheel (as you would expect) and they also resurfaced where the pressure plate bolts to the flywheel. My question is, when I'm putting the disk and pressure plate up to the flywheel to install them, I can't get the pressure plate onto the alignment pins. If I take the disk out, the the pressure plate fit's just fine over the pins. When I try to install the old worn pressure pate and disk, it goes a little further on the alignment pins but still not all the way. I'm starting to think the machine shop took too much material off where the pressure plate mates to the flywheel. I also put the old and new pressure plates side by side and they are the same height and the disk is more or less the same thickness. I am putting the disk in the correct way

Thoughts? Thanks!

John

 

Can you start the bolts and bring it on to the pins by tightening them evenly? It has to be pulled down to compress the spring. That spring force is what makes the clutch stay engaged. When the disk is worn out it is too thin to have any spring pressure, so the clutch slips and the car won't go.

 

I'm sure I could, I'm just worried that the clutch disk won't disengage when all is installed. Everything I'm reading says that the pins fit on the pressure plate and then you torque down the bolts.