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Old 09-20-2009, 01:32 PM
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my clutch is engaging off the floor. Its Hard to get in and out of gear....... I have adjusted 3 times in last few weeks. It will run fine for a few days then...... Today its engaging 1/8" from floor.... really really hard to drive.. Everything looks fine.... what could the problem be? Cable was replaced when clutch was 2.5 years ago!
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Old 09-20-2009, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by slow99gtmustang
my clutch is engaging off the floor. Its Hard to get in and out of gear....... I have adjusted 3 times in last few weeks. It will run fine for a few days then...... Today its engaging 1/8" from floor.... really really hard to drive.. Everything looks fine.... what could the problem be? Cable was replaced when clutch was 2.5 years ago!
FOund problem... cable is collapsing.... it's pulling the whole cable closer to the firewall and pulling the sheating back at the firewall........ is that common? I put a king cobra clutch in with new quandrant and cable......
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Old 09-20-2009, 06:58 PM
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i kno that the stock quadrants cannot use adjustable cables.... not sure if that was the problem... the stock qudarant would keep adjusting itself and putting your release point closer to the floor.
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Old 09-20-2009, 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by BlackMage
i kno that the stock quadrants cannot use adjustable cables.... not sure if that was the problem... the stock qudarant would keep adjusting itself and putting your release point closer to the floor.

new quad and cable few years back (ford racing one) just went to summit got a firewall adjuster and new cable.... first just installed firewall adjuster and will adjust out for now.......see if the sheating has a stopping point... if not will put new cable on
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Same thing happened to me but it was with the stock cable that had about 85k miles on it... So it seems strange that a fairly new cable would do this...
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