Stuck clutch
Well the clutch is stuck.
Now that the gas tank pump and filter is changed, It runs, idles and ran up to temperature fine, I set the timing to 10 degrees just until I can street drive it. The cooling fans came on and I have heat cycled the exhaust 3 times. The catalytic converters have something smoking off them from the time they spent in the woods under the Lincoln. The power steering is bled, I set the idle at 900 because there it doesn't hunt for idle at all and then did a base idle reset and set the tps to 1.01 volt throttle closed.
But it won't go into gear.
If you start it clutch depressed in gear it jumps.
If its running clutch depressed it won't go into gear and gives you "the whine" that tells you the transmission input shaft is rotating.
Clutch throw seems short so i am waiting on a new cable.
I tried the self adjustment and but no clicks or pops
I rerouted the cable because it probably wasn't the proper routing but no luck.
If you depress the clutch in gear and rock the car the motor rocks on the mounts.
There is a chance the loctite from the flywheel/pressure and plate bolts glued the disc to the fly wheel. I was hoping the clutch fork window would give me a view of the pressure plat moving but no luck.
The cable is pretty frayed and could just not have enough throw, so its worth the $40 to try change a frayed cable before I pull the exhaust, drive shaft and tranny again.
I actually am more afraid of fighting to get the H-pipe back into the car then any other part. At the same time, I also need to remove another half inch out of the passenger h-pipe ball flange because I adjusted the OE h-pipe to fit the after market mid pipes and flowmasters that were already on the car. I probably should just cut it all off and re-weld it back on, the right way to make everything fit.
Hey if the plates get here, that is some real motivation, because I get to street drive it legally and only the clutch stands in my way.