Small back story first. I bought the jeep from a family friend. It was running, but he wanted to rebuild the motor(ie burning oil). He pulled the motor and before he had a chance to rebuild it he got another project truck. I bought it from him for $250 with the motor pulled out and in the back cargo area. I pulled about 5 miles from his shop to my house. On the way home the throw out bearing and shift fork fell out and I couldnt find it for about 3 months. Once we did find it the face of the throw out bearing had a small dent on it. The fork was a little rusted but was bent on one end (imagine setting it on a flat surface....one half of it sat flat and the other end was raised about half an inch). My dad said that it was probably designed that way and it should be fine. We finally rebuilt the motor and dropped it in and now the clutch pedal sits about two inches from the floor. At first we thought the maybe the fork slipped off the points that hold it in place and the the rod from the slave cylinder was not hitting the fork. We have bleed it over and over so im pretty sure that there is no air in the lines, but the clutch will not dissengage.
Could you guys please give me any help or ideas that we could try out? I have tried to be as descriptive as I can so please read the whole post(I know its long but im sure it will help out for those who know anything about this kind of thing).
here are some pics of everything.
This is before I put the fork and throwout in, you can see the slave cylinder rod, and the little knob on the other side where the fork rests
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This with the fork and throwout in the trans. I dont remember if the throwout ever was aligned right, I think it probably centered itself when we put the motor in.
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This is the beastly 2.5 that we rebuilt
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This is looking in from where the starter is to make sure that the rod from the salve cylinder was lined up on the fork.
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This is how far the pedal is from the floor
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This is how far the plunger for the master cylinder is from the firewall when released
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This is how far the plunger for the master cylinder is from the firewall when the pedal is on the floor
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Could you guys please give me any help or ideas that we could try out? I have tried to be as descriptive as I can so please read the whole post(I know its long but im sure it will help out for those who know anything about this kind of thing).
here are some pics of everything.
This is before I put the fork and throwout in, you can see the slave cylinder rod, and the little knob on the other side where the fork rests
[URL="http://i43.tinypic.com/21d2wpv.jpg[/IMG"][COLOR=#0000ff]http://i43.tinypic.com/21d2wpv.jpg[/IMG[/COLOR][/URL]]
This with the fork and throwout in the trans. I dont remember if the throwout ever was aligned right, I think it probably centered itself when we put the motor in.
[IMG][URL="http://i41.tinypic.com/fenp0l.jpg%5B/IMG"][COLOR=#0000ff]http://i41.tinypic.com/fenp0l.jpg[/IMG[/COLOR][/URL]]
This is the beastly 2.5 that we rebuilt
[IMG][URL="http://i40.tinypic.com/2ui8401.jpg%5B/IMG"][COLOR=#0000ff]http://i40.tinypic.com/2ui8401.jpg[/IMG[/COLOR][/URL]]
This is looking in from where the starter is to make sure that the rod from the salve cylinder was lined up on the fork.
[IMG][URL="http://i39.tinypic.com/2py9uki.jpg%5B/IMG"][COLOR=#0000ff]http://i39.tinypic.com/2py9uki.jpg[/IMG[/COLOR][/URL]]
This is how far the pedal is from the floor
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This is how far the plunger for the master cylinder is from the firewall when released
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This is how far the plunger for the master cylinder is from the firewall when the pedal is on the floor
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