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supraluke · 2010-02-17, 03:47 PM

At 30,000 miles my stock clutch gave up. I dropped the transmission and installed a new aftermarket clutch and had the stock flywheel resurfaced. After I put it all back together I have problems shifting into reverse and 1st gear (have to push hard, clunks into gear) from neutral because the clutch is not fully dissengaging. One person who i've asked says my problem is that when I had my flywheel resurfaced that I needed to shim the flywheel replace the material removed. Is this right? I've never heard of anyone shimming their flywheel in their STi after resurfacing. Any other ideas? I don't want to take it all back apart if I don't know what the problem is.

2010-02-17, 03:47 PM	#1
supraluke EJ18 Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 42 Car: 2007 Subaru WRB STi	My clutch problem. At 30,000 miles my stock clutch gave up. I dropped the transmission and installed a new aftermarket clutch and had the stock flywheel resurfaced. After I put it all back together I have problems shifting into reverse and 1st gear (have to push hard, clunks into gear) from neutral because the clutch is not fully dissengaging. One person who i've asked says my problem is that when I had my flywheel resurfaced that I needed to shim the flywheel replace the material removed. Is this right? I've never heard of anyone shimming their flywheel in their STi after resurfacing. Any other ideas? I don't want to take it all back apart if I don't know what the problem is.