Started noon Wed, finished 11AM friday. Probably 8-10 hours total wrench time. Did rear main seal, tranny mount and pilot bushing while I was in there. Reason for job was the throwout bearing failed, the disk looked almost as thick as the new replacement probably had another 50-80K of life in it.

My fork has no return spring. Is this normal? the adjuster is the platic one that rides up and down the spirals on the cable. When I adjust for more freeplay, the pedal moves towards the floor. I looked around and don't see anywhere to hook a spring should it need one.

The new Sachs pressure plate looked a lot different than the one that came out. Old (Sachs) presure plate had a date of '91 on it and was much heavier, the plate appeared thicker and the housing was much deeper than the replacement, the fingers stuck out further on the new plate, making it the same overall depth. Car is an 82 B21FTi, with the dealer installed intercooler. Everything seems to work OK, just hope this plate will stand up to the 170 or so HP I'm making.

Only other issues were I has to really pull on the crossmember forward (with a come along) to make the bolt holes line up. The new tranny mount looks a little squashed too. Could worn motor mounts cause this? Lastly, the shifter seems a little more wiggily. I got all the nylon and rubber spacers back in correctly under the snap ring. The pin and set screw don't have any spacers do they?

As always, thanks for the great advice from this board, made the job go a lot easier. The anticipation was far worse than the actual event.

Bob (greasey)
'82 intercooled turbowagon