Broken piece inside tranny

[OMFGeofffff]

So I was helping my buddy with his 99 GSX and he was having a "can't get into gear with engine running" problem. First thought was bleed clutch/replace slave cylinder. Did that and adjusted the master cylinder. Still nothing. So I crawled under there and pulled the fork boot away from the tranny and this piece came falling out. Any ideas?

 

[Rausch]

Piece of a pressure plate spring/tang?

What is it made of? It's really hard to tell in the pics.

 

[OMFGeofffff]

A magnet is attracted to it so it must be steel?

 

[OMFGeofffff]

Also, the pressure plate was yellow to narrow down possible brands.

 

[OMFGeofffff]

Sorry for wasting space I thought this was going to be a lot harder to figure out.

To confirm what's wrong it definitely looks like part of the pressure plate.

 

[jepherz]

Quoting OMFGeofffff:
A magnet isn't attracted to it so it must be steel?



Magnetic WOULD be steel. And I'm guessing you meant that a magnet WAS attracted to that part of the pressure plate, as it should be stee.

 

[CutlassJim]

Unless it is stainless.

 

thats a PP peice for sure

 

[OMFGeofffff]

Quoting jepherz:
Quoting OMFGeofffff:
A magnet isn't attracted to it so it must be steel?



Magnetic WOULD be steel. And I'm guessing you meant that a magnet WAS attracted to that part of the pressure plate, as it should be stee.




Yea that's what I meant. I told my buddy what it was and he'll be ordering a new clutch kit within the next few weeks.

 

[curtis]

Your buddy needs to stop driving it. An out of balance pressure plate combo is an explosion waiting to happen.

 

[OMFGeofffff]

Yea he's not driving it. He can't go into gear at all so it's just sitting now. It's funny though he just bought it a couple months ago and is already thinking about getting rid of it cause he can't handle dsm's I guess.