Could someone please help me with my throwout bearing placement. I'll do my best to keep this concise but adequately detailed.
So I have a stock 3v with the original TR3650, after having my OEM clutch spectacularly explode at Road Atlanta I'm installing a new one. So I upped it to an exedy Mach 400 and Ford OEM slave cylinder.
Currently everything is installed but after some reading I opted to check the slave face to pressure plate finger distance and I am getting about 0.40625". That comes from bell housing face to slave face of 2.65" and a engine block to pressure plate fingers measurement of 3.063".
Where I'm slightly unsure of my measurement is my exedy pressure plate fingers are slightly recessed
versus the OEM pressure plate
So I made the measurement in two steps, with a straight edge across the pressure plate I measured from fingers to straight edge (0.1875") and from the back of the engine with the spacer plate on to straight edge (3.25") so pressure plate fingers to back of the engine is 3.25-0.1875 = 3.063"
So part of my confusion I think comes from how the slave works, once installed is it always compressed like below
And then when the pedal is pressed the slave extends and pushes on the pressure plate diaphragm spring fingers? If that's the case then I would need about a 0.5" spacer which is fine but then I also wonder why exedy offers the kit with an OEM slave since it seems to be due to their pressure plate. When I compress it I get just over 1" of travel which is where the 0.5" spacer comes in (This is the old slave)
Am I overthinking this or am I missing something? thanks in advance
So I have a stock 3v with the original TR3650, after having my OEM clutch spectacularly explode at Road Atlanta I'm installing a new one. So I upped it to an exedy Mach 400 and Ford OEM slave cylinder.
Currently everything is installed but after some reading I opted to check the slave face to pressure plate finger distance and I am getting about 0.40625". That comes from bell housing face to slave face of 2.65" and a engine block to pressure plate fingers measurement of 3.063".
Where I'm slightly unsure of my measurement is my exedy pressure plate fingers are slightly recessed
versus the OEM pressure plate
So I made the measurement in two steps, with a straight edge across the pressure plate I measured from fingers to straight edge (0.1875") and from the back of the engine with the spacer plate on to straight edge (3.25") so pressure plate fingers to back of the engine is 3.25-0.1875 = 3.063"
So part of my confusion I think comes from how the slave works, once installed is it always compressed like below
And then when the pedal is pressed the slave extends and pushes on the pressure plate diaphragm spring fingers? If that's the case then I would need about a 0.5" spacer which is fine but then I also wonder why exedy offers the kit with an OEM slave since it seems to be due to their pressure plate. When I compress it I get just over 1" of travel which is where the 0.5" spacer comes in (This is the old slave)
Am I overthinking this or am I missing something? thanks in advance
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