Ok I really hate posting the "find out what's wrong with my car" threads but I'm going to need some ideas. I put a mcloed street twin clutch in my car about 15,000 miles ago. past 15K miles, no problem. last night when I was driving home i was in the middle of shifting and out of no where it wouldn't go into gear. I pulled over and just kept trying to get it into gear and eventually it would go back to normal. I'd drive a little longer and then it would not go into gear again. needless to say I got home by rev matching the engine w/ the tranny. I got up today and went to my car and it was acting just normal for a little bit. then it started doing it again, but now it makes a griding noise when i let off the clutch in gear, and when i have the pedal all the way down. The grinding sounds like someone is trying to put the car into a gear without having the clutch in.

Things I've done/checked:
the fluid for the clutch

and i put an ajustable master cylinder in with my street twin

update: i changed the slave cylinder and nothing and these came out of the bell housing when i took the slave cylinder off



Help would be greatly appreciated b/c this is my daily driver

 

Sounds like the slave cylinder might be on its way out . If you keep driving it like that , your trans will need to be rebuilt as well .

 

allright, went in today and replaced the slave cylinder... nothing.

and when i took the slave cylinder off, two dowel pin looking things fell out of the bell housing. they were fairly scratched up. they were about 1" - 1 1/4" long.

help?

 

If the dowl pins are missing , the trans might be running out of alignment . When you pulled the slave off , did you happen to notice a shiny spot on the input shaft on the area under the slave cylinder ?

 

ummmm i'm confused.

How am i suppose to be able to see the input shaft? I have an lt1 clutch, not an ls1

 

Oh , I thought you had an LS1 . Sounds like you have an alignment issue . It definately needs the dowl pins if thats what you found in the bottom of the bellhousing .

 

ttt for update and pics and help please

 

I'm wondering if the throwout bearing took a sh_t on him. It would do exactly that.

 

that would make the most sense..... i'd assume this doober that i took a picture of is the needle in the bearing...