Finally was able to put a toploader 4 speed in my 69 mustang, went to fire it up and was quickly greeted with a metal scraping sound, with this sound I pressed in the clutch and the sound was still there but had changed pitch.

Upon taking out the throwout bearing I discovered that it had a bit of a wobble and wasnt anything like this other one I had laying around which was nice a greased up and had no wobble and seems a lot tighter (meaning I cant spin it as freely, but it still spins smoothly) than the "bad throwout bearing"

I know this "new" bearing works because we didnt have any problem with it in the car that it was in before and it has only been sitting out of a car for about 2 weeks.

So then I put the "new" throwout bearing in and now it only scrapes when I press the clutch in.
I had tightened up the clutch adjustment and the scraping is still there, maybe the throwout bearing slipped off the fingers of the bellhousing as I slid the transmission in (I put the bellhousing on before the transmission cause I have to twist the bellhousing to fit it in the car because of my headers).

any suggestions on what it may be exactly or any tricks I could maybe try?

 

I had to put on my bell housing first because I was doing it by myself and couldn't lift everything up from under the car to install. I think that I put the bearing on the tranny and slid the tranny into place. I didn't have the bearing free floating in there. Don't for get to lube the bearing.

Mines a 67 and I had the old Z bar set up that would disengage the clutch pushing from the front of the car to the rear. My TKO 500 5 speed that I have in now is the oposite I think.

James

 

dont you need to put the throwout bearing on the clip on the clutch fork though?

 

You sure you didn't put the clutch plate in backwards? The springs on the hub are supposed to face towards the transmission, not the engine. I actually had a clutch that was labeled backwards, which made it confusing for a minute.

 

I didnt think you could place a clutch in a ford backwards?

 

It's difficult, but not impossible.