DeTomaso Mailing List: February 00, Message #202

Charlie Mccall wrote:

> This afternoon I am dropping my car off at a local garage to try to look at my clutch problem. For those who don't remember the symptoms, in a nutshell it sounds like a potential problem with the springs, pressure plate, something like that. It is not the master or slave cylinder - those are functioning normally but the clutch feel is weird, and the car kind of shutters when I engage it...
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> I need to give the garage pretty explicit instructions, since they haven't worked on DeTomasos before. What do I tell them? What should they be looking for, what general procedure should I give them, and what tricks should they know about? I can tell them to pull the bellhousing after moving the A/C condensor out of the way, what do they do next? Should any competant mechanic know what to look for next?
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> Thanks!
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> Charlie McCall
> 1972 DeTomaso Pantera Pre-L #3847
> "Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"

Charlie,

We did that at a PCNC Tech session in '98 that I attended.  First off, make sure they use plenty of fender covers, they will be leaning into the bay ALOT.  They do not have to diconnect the A/C condensor, but will need to unfasten it and swing it out of the way in order to pull the tranny.

Unless you've done it previously, there are two bolts INSIDE the bellhousing that hold it to the front of the tranny, you MUST pull the bellhousing with the tranny at the same time, unless these two have been removed previously and not re-installed.

The rest is pretty easy, undo the halfshafts from inside the compartment, the starter from underneath the passenger side, the wire harness to the reverse-light-switch,

Oh yes... If it's a dash-2 tranny, it will be mounted with a specific set of washers on each side of the rear tranny mounts.  This is a "shimming" of sorts, and needs to be re-installed in the same manner.  As I recall, we lifted the tranny out and then re-installed the mounting bolts with the washers in the same sport or something like that.  You want to make sure they get these back in the right spot,
otherwise, the assembly is pulled to the rear or pushed to the front, creating more stress on the engine/tranny.

I hope everything goes okay for you.  Good luck and let us know what they find, I'm guessing your pressure plate is shot and your clutch disk is beginning to explode.

Asa Jay




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