So i just replaced the clutch (full kit), flywheel, and the clutch slave cyl in my 87 pickup. I went to start it and it just clicked. the battery was dead but i charged it for a little. So i put it on charge all day and tried again. Same thing! (also tried jumping it multiple times. ..Battery isnt the issue) So i took out the plugs and tried it. NOTHING DIFFERENT. I've no idea what could be wrong. The starter should be fine and all.. The only idea i have is that it could be something to do with the flywheel because when i was installing everything, the flywheel didnt want to turn.
I tried turning it over with a wrench and pushing it in gear. Nothing.

Any ideas on what could possibly be wrong!??
I'm stuck.
Thanks
-Will

 

Starter contacts, or you have a plug not connected which if on the passenger side of the transmission towards the firewall near the frame rail. I believe (and I could be wrong) without that connected truck won't start.

 

I am thinking you should look at your grounds

check out your clutch safety circuit but the fact that your getting a click says it should be working .

you might want to look at the starter relay .

 

But then what would explain it not turning over by hand? The plugs are all out too.

 

Dang it I missed that part. Is the new clutch a Perfection clutch and/or flywheel from Advance Auto? If so, I had to change out the bolts that hold the plate on on the back of the motor. The flywheel was hitting the bolt heads making it hard to turn.

 

Clutch disc installed backwards? Put the trans in neutral and try to turn the engine over.

 

If the trans is in neutral and it won't turn over by hand, you did something wrong.

Take it back apart, and figure out what caused the problem. There isn't an "easy fix" you will find for it

 

The clutch kit is an Exedy and a replacement flywheel. I dont see how i could have done anything wrong in that matter. The flywheel didnt want to turn by hand before i put the tranny in but i figured it was cause i had the plugs in. I've done clutches before so i'm pretty positive that shouldnt be the issue

 

Any more ideas guys? Really could use some!

 

The motor was locked-up before flywheel replacement and you replaced the clutch why?

Engine not been run in a long time?

Vehicle been sitting? If so possible piston rings rusted to the cyldiner walls... spray penitrating oil in spark plug holes and let sit over night and see if the engine turns...

Got oil? Dip stick... course if the engine is locked... to late now >_<

Was the flywheel removed? Installed correctly?

Seized engine accessory pulley?

Left a tool stuck on and or in the flywheel?

Battery dead?

Grounds for starter and bat?

 

Take flywheel off and see if it turns over.

 

It ran perfect before the clutch. And the electrical shouldn't be the issue. What im worried about is why it wont turn over by hand..

 

You can worry about it forever but it probably has something to do with the work you did.
If in fact it worked before you changed your flywheel and clutch then I suspect that.

Or, you could try sprinkling seafoam all over it.

 

sounds like your flywheel bolts are too long and hitting the block seizing the engine, since it was fine before. not much else to bind up. hopefully when you cranked them down you didnt bend the end of the crank.

 

You have already been told what you need to do, and now you are merely looking for an easy answer.

The engine ran before you put a clutch/flywheel in it, and now it won't turn over even by hand. If you don't understand what you need to do at this point, this forum won't be any help for you.

Backtrack the things you did, in order, and figure out what you installed incorrectly.

 

I understand all that, but how could the bolts possibly be too long? Im almost positive i put the same ones back in. I can't think of anything that i could have done wrong with the clutch kit and flywheel.

 

Unless it's what I was talking about. It doesn't necessarily have to be the one from Autozone. I don't know how many other people have had that problem I did though.

X100 You going to have to take the tras off to find out. If it moved freely before the clutch and not after the clutch, I highly doubt it's a coincidence.

 

X1,000 If it ran fine before you pulled it apart, "fixed" it, put it back together, and now it dont...... somethings not right, and the only way to figure out what, is to tear into it again... yes, it SUCKS, but hey, so does a motor that wont spin.

 

^^ x 2

 

Yep..gets my vote..... if the bolts are fouling on the block, then it may have damaged the bolts, not a bigger, but could be a biatche to undo them.

Personally think its unavoidable that your going to have to bite the bullet and investigate what has caused the issue, ie pull the pressure plate time !!