Any damage to the Ring Gear or anything. If your starter wasn't fully disengaging and cause the engine to buck you'd see some serious damage to the starter or the ring gear.

Mine is smooth too. Unless its knocking.



I'm not sure what would be worse in front of girls. The knocking or the squeaking? https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683785.gif

Nope, I knew that. Ring gear is perfect, sans some missing black paint from contacting the starter teeth when they should be

Well for ****. Moving parts in the bell housing are the eccentric shaft, flywheel, counterweight, clutch, throwout bearing and input shaft on the tranny.



That statement is no help... just thinking outloud.

It usually helps that way.



I dont think its possible to put the counterweight on too far to where it hits parts of the rear housing.



I'm going to go back out and check the tightness of the clutch bolts and maybe pull the whole assembly off https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...O_DIR#>/11.gif

Yea pull it off, it would seem that with that kind of symptom something would have obvious damage. No you can't put the counterweight on to where it would hit anything unless you just plain had a defective counter weight or something.



Trust me I understand your tranny woes... will be pulling an RX-7 tranny for the 3rd time in less than a month. If it ain't one car it's the other!

the third time?! :o If that happens to me, teh arson is inevitable https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683785.gif



Anyways, I did just remember, when I installed all this, RB claimed 14ft/lbs for the pressure plate bolts, is this true?

Yea that sounds right, I just put them on gootentight with my calibrated impact wrench.



Well my deal was, bought the 88, clutch was bad, swapped the clutch, but the throwout bearing was missing when I pulled, which I think in turn buggered the tranny. So now I need to replace the tranny. The tranny in the 84, which I will be tossing back in Saturday was bad when I bought the car over 30,000 miles ago LOL

my TII tranny works fine. it grinds when you try and do super fast shifts otherwise its perfect......

Yea well I would rather creep around on my tranny then your motor https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png ass!