Terrible couple of days working on the car.

323ian · Post by **323ian** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:14 pm

After completeing the terrible job of taking all my all my gearbox off my car pretty much single handedly i put it on the deck and put my new HKS twin plate clutch on the car. I then tryed to haul the gearbox back on to the car and try as i would it just did not seem to want to go on, i tried for hours to get it back on and it was just having none of it and i began to really doubt my mechanical abilities.
I eventually got it on today and then came the killer blow, after bolting it all back up i went to put the pivot arm back in and it would not fit. I get on the phone to HKS for advice and they then inform me that I have bought a R34 GTR clutch rather than the R33 GTR clutch.

They said that i must have had massive troubles putting the box back on which i just replied. Yes.

Does anyone know if i can get away with putting on a R34 pivot arm or am i at a dead end?

I have been tucked up for

DASHughes · Post by **DASHughes** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:27 pm

I have felt like this many a time-cars can be such ball ache.

About 4 months ago, felt like giving up and buying a M3. But i decided to carry on as i had put so much time and money into it. Having just driven the car for the 1st time in 2 and a half months i back in love.

(and that was slow, bedding the engine in driving!).

Stick with it, you have a gorgeous car-everytime im at the workshop i stand there gazing at what may lie below the sheets :lol:

It will be worth it in the summer!

323ian · Post by **323ian** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:31 pm

Thanks very much.

I am honestly just at my wits end with it now though.
I suppose at one time or another though we have all been there.

It is at times like this where i just wish i had the money to just drive it to a tuners and say 'supply and fit my clutch'!

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:48 pm

Ian - you could always fund it by doing some more of those porn movies

:lol:

Seriously though, I know exactly how you feel - got wrenching when that realisation gets you that you have been wasting your time fitting something that was never going to fit - stu knows all about that too

Tk · Post by Tk » Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:00 pm

stick with it mate, thats one cracking 33 . you know it will be worth it,

mondy1 · Post by **mondy1** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:04 pm

mate i fitted my tripple plate lying on my back on the floor it aint nice. took 6 attempts to get teh box back in because people i got the parts from not telling me about modifications that had to be made to the box etc to fit a tripple in. oh yes and anyone that says you can line up three clutch plates by eye is on some kind of medication and needs to be shot

keep an eye on that hks clutch mate i had a hks twin and when it went it looked like it had been in a BBQ. ive got a gtr os gilken tripple now and its awsome anyone that says a tripple is a pig aint tried the os gilken one its ten times better than my old twin

323ian · Post by **323ian** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:12 pm

Thanks for the replies guys.
Mondy luckily the HKS twin plate has one central hub but the sheer angle i had to put it on to get it started on the shaft was a joke!
Trouble is being the first time i had took a GTR box off i knew no better.

What about my question about the R34 pivot arm?

boxy · Post by **boxy** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:49 pm

No how yo ufeel mate, that happens to me all the time, even when I was in the GULF just done a 18 hour shift refitting an independant drive generator to a tornado we realized we hadn`t replaced it but fitted the old one back in. Nightmare! ended up seeing the other shift come in after 24 hours. Nice seeing the sun rise though in the desert, stick with it buddy you will laugh about it soon mate.

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:13 am

I know what you are going through mate. After spending ages doing my rats nest job i wanted to enjoy my car on a sculthorpe track day but on the sighting lap the heater matrix went. That job was fun.....not!
Respect to you for doing the gearbox though!
Thankfully all 3rd gen Rx7 bits fit so we dont have the same problems as you skyline boys.

Things can only get better mate! Just remember the fun at Snetterton!

Post by **Ben** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:15 am

Ian, never give up on that car - you have my favourite R33 GTR!! - will the fella you bought it from not replace it for you! If my spare clutch would fit you'd be welcome to it - but it's for a 32 not a 33.

All I can say is remember - you did the job, I would never have dreamed of trying it - I have amazing amounts of respect for someone who can actually work on their car - let alone a minty skyline

.

You have learned from your troubles - and when my clutch needs sorting - i'll be calling you

As to the pivot arm - sorry mate - no idea - surely the 34 box config can't be that different from the 33 config.