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Loss of power after changing throw out bearing

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Old 09-23-2015, 11:39 AM
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This weekend I had to go ahead and change my throw out bearing and did so put it all back together but after taking it out for a drive i know it doesn't have the power or torque as it did before because I'm having to barely push the gas pedal to try and get it to accelerate and when I try and go past the point where it accelerates it just revs my engine without accelerating at all, does anybody know what could be wrong?
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Old 09-23-2015, 12:04 PM
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You put something together wrong. It is free reving for some reason.
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Old 09-23-2015, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by PNYXPRESS
You put something together wrong. It is free reving for some reason.
Any idea what it could be? Or am I gonna have to take it all apart again and see what's missing?
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Old 09-23-2015, 03:07 PM
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There should be an inspection plate between the tranny and motor. You can at least see if the clutch is not working correctly but you will most likely have to remove everything to fix what's wrong.

Check the routing of your cable though, if your cable is binding, it will not fully engage the clutch.
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Old 09-23-2015, 03:51 PM
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my bet is the fork came off the ball and when you disengaged the clutch to put it in gear its now bound up not allowing the clutch to fully engage.
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Clutch is slipping, something is not put together correctly.
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Old 09-23-2015, 07:21 PM
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So I went ahead and pulled the dust cover off of the transmission and to my surprise I found these sitting in the dust box, I'm 100% sure they weren't before, and I'm assuming that they're apart of my old throw out bearing because when I originally tried getting the transmission out of the bell housing it was caught on part of the old throw out bearing but I could be wrong about that.
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