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Yesterday as I was driving home, a really bad metallic rattling noise started coming from the tranny, and I have a feeling that something broke off or a bolt came loose inside the tranny. The constant chattering noise at idle from what I suspect is a bad throw-out bearing or a loose pressure plate or flywheel is also worse than ever. So before I can drive the car again, I need to pull off the tranny and see what's up. It still drives fine(aside from grinding going into first and reverse...but that's hydraulic-related), but I'm deathly afraid of an exploding flywheel.

I figure that while I'm doing this, I'll replace the lightweight flywheel with my OEM AE101 flywheel, because I hate the lightweight unit...it's far too light for street use. Because I used a 200mm flywheel for an AE86, and the AE101 OEM flywheel is 212mm, I also need a new clutch, so I'm going to get an Exedy OEM-spec clutch kit eventually, if I can ever get my debts paid off.

I read Sev's how-to on how to pull out the tranny, and assuming I can find tools somewhere to do this, I'm hoping to have the tranny off tonight. Do you guys have any tips on how to change a clutch?

make sure you use loctite on the flywheel bolts, christian.. you wouldnt want those coming loose mid-run!!

Yeah...I've heard that a couple times...I have a feeling that my mechanic probably didn't use Loctite on something and just estimated how tight the bolts should be rather than torqueing them down to specs.

Just make sure that you tighten the pressure plate bolts correctly. Go in a star patter similar to how you do your lug nuts. Use a clutch alignment tool when installing the disk and pressure plate. Mainly pay attention to every detail, that one piece of the car that you don't want something to go wrong with .

Be sure to remove all oil from the flywheel, with a solvent like brake clean. And if you are putting an old flywheel in, get it resurfased.

you dont need to resurface the flywheel if its used. just clean off the pressure plate with brake fluid to remove the protectant seal and use BLUE loctite to hold the bolts down. torque em to specs and you should be good to go.

let me know if you have any problems Christian.

--Scott