Stepped on the petal to start it and :punchballs: broke the link between the clutch fork and arm on the bell housing.
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/1984%20XR7%20Cougar/100_0285.jpg?t=1268508433)
Now I'm thinking that the spacer someone put on there might have been why the clutch didn't seem to disengage all the way in the first place.
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/1984%20XR7%20Cougar/100_0288.jpg?t=1268508433)
So I go out to the garage and dig down to the deepest end of my old parts pile and find the bell housing from my 86 TC and c00ch the piece I broke aswell as a good shift fork boot (good thing I kept these parts around for 6 years!)
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/1984%20XR7%20Cougar/100_0287.jpg?t=1268508434)
I put it back together, did the 'clutch petal adjustment' procedure, fired up the car and now it wont disengage enough to get it in gear, I had to push it through the floorboards before to get it in gear, now even that doesn't work. :disappoin Could it be that my cable is stretched out that much? I'm gonna try a u-bolt style cable clamp to take up some slack, what else could be wrong here?
Thanks
Scott
EDIT: Well after looking at it I gave up on the cable clamp idea and instead I shimmed the cable out from the bell housing with four 16 gauge steel shim washers. Seems better now, did a short run around the neighborhood and it still slips a bit in 4th under boost right around 4-4200 rpm but will actually light them up in first no problem now, hopefully theres just a bit of glazing on the clutch that'll wear off... or at least give me enough time to round up a new clutch and get it in. Temporary fix but it'll work!
that dogbone cable :flame:
do yourself a favor and ditch that for a bolt and some washers.
can you still get the clutch cable for those?
i know the thing the pin/clevis goes on is no longer available.
im at a loss as to why the spacer was on there.