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Friend of mine just had a Spec, stage II clutch put in his 87-88. He also had the pilot and TO bearings replaced and a new flywheel and slave cylinder. He had a large tranny shop do the work.
He feels he has too much chatter or shudder in 1st or reverse gears. The shop seems to somewhat acknowledge the issue. He and I are trying to establich a list of possible causes. Besides flywheel flatness, cleanliness, and micro finish on the flywheel (new) and the condition of the bearing retainer that the T.O. bearing rides on, what else contributes to launch shudder. Anything I'm missing? I'm assuming they bled the system on the new slave install. Probably not a good assumption?
There is one more little kicker here. When he picked up the car, the shop claimed the old clutch fork was cracked and they had to use a Mustang GT fork as they couldn't find an 87-88 TC hydraulic fork.
Anybody ever hear of any GT fork being suitable (I haven't). We don't know what year the GT fork came from. I'm curious how they rigged this, I haven't seen the car yet.
He feels he has too much chatter or shudder in 1st or reverse gears. The shop seems to somewhat acknowledge the issue. He and I are trying to establich a list of possible causes. Besides flywheel flatness, cleanliness, and micro finish on the flywheel (new) and the condition of the bearing retainer that the T.O. bearing rides on, what else contributes to launch shudder. Anything I'm missing? I'm assuming they bled the system on the new slave install. Probably not a good assumption?
There is one more little kicker here. When he picked up the car, the shop claimed the old clutch fork was cracked and they had to use a Mustang GT fork as they couldn't find an 87-88 TC hydraulic fork.
Anybody ever hear of any GT fork being suitable (I haven't). We don't know what year the GT fork came from. I'm curious how they rigged this, I haven't seen the car yet.
Pete Dunham