Exedy Cluth plate, which way?

[goanna_38]

Just bought a VT S/Pak (V6) off of my eldest son. Clutch was noisy and master cylinder was leaking all over the carpet. Pulled the gearbox off and found that the dual mass flywheel had about 60 mm of play betwen the 2 halves. So bite the bullet and buy an Exedy solid flywheel and clutch kit. Bought a master cylinder too (and aren't they pricey little buggers) Mounted the flywheel no problem and then looked at the clutch. Which way to mount it? Only documentation in the box was about flywheel machining but it had a diagram that showed the raised side of the clutch facing the pressure plate and the VS book showed the series one clutch mounts the same way, so that's how I mounted it. Had no end of trouble bleeding it (ended up lowering the front of the car of the car to make the bleed nipple end of the slave cylinder the high point) but got all the air out of it eventually. Saddled up for the inaugural test drive and struck problem number one. Push the clutch in and it didn't want to go into gear. Put it in gear and start it and it made a funny noise. Let the clutch of the floor a bit and the noise stops and it goes into gear fine, so I can only assume that it was pushing the fingers of the pressure plate in far enough to contact the clutch plate. I thought I'd solve the problem by winding in the adjuster on the master cylinder end and struck problem number 2. There was brake fluid leaking out of the back of the master cylinder (my new and very expensive master cylinder). Got the old one and found something curious. If you push the piston in far enough (bottom it out) the the rear seal goes in far enough to uncover the bleed hole into the space behind it, causing it to leak into the cab. I now wonder if maybe there was nothing wrong with the original one. Taking travel out of the master cylinder pushrod solved the problem of the noise but I still don't know if the clutch plate is in the right way or not. And it made the clutch pedal feel strange. Nothing you can put your finger on, just strange. There is enough room in the dish in the centre of the flywheel to mount the clutch plate the other way, just that every car I have ever put a clutch in has always had the raised hub on the pressure plate side. Any thoughts? On both things, which way to fit the clutch plate and bottoming out the master cylinder.

[goanna_38]

Sorted. I rang Exedy on Monday. Apparently you can get the kit, or the alternate kit which works 90% of the time. I got the alternate kit and fall within the 10%. To their credit they sent another kit (the right one this time) no questions asked. fitted it and works good as gold.

[deanos70]

you cant complain about that for service

good to see someone following up with service

glad you got it all sorted

[VToTheT]

Almost sorted. Brand new master cylinder is leaking just like the old one. Thinking I might have botomed it out and damaged something up. Looks like I'm going to have to strip the old one and if the bore is seviceable, kit it and fit it. I'd like to know why it's leaking. Called PBR (that's where I got the master cylinder from) and am now on day 4 of waiting for an engineer to call me back. Exedy service good. PBR service? I'm not so sure about.