Clutch R&R questions

My seal style is different. If you could blow it past the wear ring, you've got bigger problems than needing a new seal. Might want to walk down the road and start looking for the crankshaft.

 

I appreciate everyone's help. Can't say it enough.

 

Yep! Thanks. Other than the "rear main seal fiasco of 2020", it all went really smooth. I wasn't able to get my flywheel off Friday in time to get it turned, so I sat on my hands all weekend and that sucked. But that was more of a timing issue than a snag. And even if I was able to get it turned Friday, that just means I would have messed up the seal, and had to wait all weekend to get a new one anyway, so it's really a wash on the time frame.

 

For the future person that might happen upon this thread, I will say one thing for sure - when you set up the tranny jack initially, make sure it's perfect then and there. After I got the tranny out from under the truck, I had to mess around with my cherry picker to get it on the jack better so I could drag it over and pressure wash it. I thought I had it on there perfect, but I managed to get it to slide when I was taking out the front bearing. So then I had to fix it again. I seriously screwed around with that for a solid three hours. Lots of time wasted. And be careful. You've basically got the weight of a 350 Chevy on the jack, so don't drop it on yourself.

Also, plan ahead on a way to get the flywheel and clutch on and off the engine. I am not a weak man, and I can tell you a 150 lb clutch becomes a lot heavier when you're in an awkward position under a semi truck.

If you're not tooled out, you'll need a cheater pipe to get the two bolts on the tranny spring mount, and also for all the flywheel bolts. Everything else isn't terrible. Don't think your 1/2" gun will break them, because it probably won't. I have a good gun(Ingersoll Rand), buy my air situation is poor(line coming from tank to regulator is 1/4"). Your miles may vary.

Lastly, read and reread the posts in this thread. These guys are legit mechanics and know what they're talking about. Good luck.

 

I was joking.

Either way, you'd need to detonate some C4 in my crank case to push the rubber past my wear ring. It's a completely different kind of seal.