Took my J10 for its longest drive since I have been mechanically restoring it. 25 mile round trip about 55 minutes of driving, broken up to 2 12.5 drives (to a friends house with about 3 hours in-between). I know thats not really a long drive but was a big deal to me after all the work I have done lol. Near the end of the drive home I started having major clutch issues. When shifting into 4th (t18) everything just bogged down and I couldn't go above 2000 rpm, truck would not speed up, as if clutch was slipping or not engaging all the way. Before this everything was working fine. Started smelling clutch and seeing smoke and the same thing started happening in 3rd. Clutch pedal felt fine during all of this.
I pulled over to try and see what was going on, just lots of smoke and the smell of clutch. Let everything cool down for about 20 minutes. Tried to limp my way home and when starting in second the truck was almost bouncing and would not go forward without stalling. Let it sit for another 20 minutes and was able to limp it home. Through out the trip I was shifting around 2500-3000rpm driving pretty conservatively. Again everything was working well and felt fine early in the trip.
Background: I had a shop rebuild by t18, I rebuilt my Dana 20, I put in a new centerforce clutch, replaced clutch linkage with heim joints, rebuilt bellcrank, new throwout bearing, and set clutch pedal free play to stock specs. I was breaking in the clutch so easy driving in the city.
What is going on? What would cause this? I am assuming I just destroyed my new centerforce
I pulled over to try and see what was going on, just lots of smoke and the smell of clutch. Let everything cool down for about 20 minutes. Tried to limp my way home and when starting in second the truck was almost bouncing and would not go forward without stalling. Let it sit for another 20 minutes and was able to limp it home. Through out the trip I was shifting around 2500-3000rpm driving pretty conservatively. Again everything was working well and felt fine early in the trip.
Background: I had a shop rebuild by t18, I rebuilt my Dana 20, I put in a new centerforce clutch, replaced clutch linkage with heim joints, rebuilt bellcrank, new throwout bearing, and set clutch pedal free play to stock specs. I was breaking in the clutch so easy driving in the city.
What is going on? What would cause this? I am assuming I just destroyed my new centerforce
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