clutchfork questions

[Shok]

Originally posted by ultraflo
The stock clutchfork in my '93 was steel... not sure on the 85.

What you've explained, as far as stock alum. to HD steel, makes me think of the input shaft bearing retainer upgrade that is available for stock T5's

What happened to make it appear as though you've broken a fork?

Well I was coming out of a parking lot and clutched in to shift into 2nd when I heard a loud click, and the pedal did not come back up. I had to limp home in first gear since I was a few blocks away from home. Now this happened to me a few years ago and I had to take it to a shop because while I had done a clutch job on the car myself b4 I didnt have a place to take it apart or tools to do it at the time. The guy at the shop told me the fork cracked where it meets the ball and he welded it back together. So when it happened today my first thought was it broke again, not like I really trusted the welded version but I was strapped for cash and hey its lasted over 3 years. I only had a few mins of daylight to look at it today and checked that its not a broken cable and the quadrant was changed to an alum version with a firewall adjuster a long time ago so while I will check the whole pedal assembly and cable I doubt they are to blame. I seem to remember reading a long time ago that the fork is alum but there was a steel upgrade so that is what I am trying to verify now. Oh and I know what you mean about the bearing retainer upgrade, I have one of those sitting on my washing machine in the garage that I will install if I end up pulling the tranny. So lets say my 85 did come with the alum version, the 85 also has the smaller flywheel, am I correct in assuming that if I got a 93 steel fork it would probably go right in my car and work with the smaller clutch setup? Any info is appreciated.