Hello, my name is Justin, im new to this board, but not exactly new to Chryslers, ive grown up around in and under them. bit of a weird one tho that neither my dad nor i can figure, hopefully someone might have an idea if we screwed up or if something else is wrong.
My dad recently bought from a junkyard a 1980 D100 regular cab, with a sweet running slant 6, but APPARENTLY the clutch was toast, to try to put it into gear resulted in severe grinding, chattering, and all sorts of lovely metal to metal noises. an inspection reviealed the yoke was jammed at an unnatural angle to the tranny.
OK so we went ahead, not too discuraged, and ordered up a rebuild, thru NAPA. we got the complete set, from pilot bearing to A833 OD unit to new ujoints on both ends along with a yoke i dug up in my collection. i installed it myself (first time for me, but guided by my dad and the faithful Chilton Manuals) put the old girl back together, and took it for a drive.
Now this is were it gets interesting. the chatter and noise were gone, but we suddenly found, rather rudely i should think, that when taking off from a standstill, the truck would "jump" as tho a semi would dumping the clutch in a high gear, especially trying tojust let the clutch out in a normal fashion. it would do this voilently enough to crack the windshield, and take our teeth out. we tried a variety of launching techniques (my dad is an old hand with stickshifts), everything from slow as possible let outs to dumping the clutch, no difference. its at the point were to try to take off from a stop while going uphill or with a load will result if not in blown u-joints, then damage to the truck in general. it also does this in second gear mildly, ot to the extent as first. reverse it doesnt seem to do it quite as much. it seems to have no power either (i KNOW a slant has power, iven in stock configuration).
Obviously the truck isnt quite streetable or workable in this condition, and im hoping someone out there would know where/if we screwed up, its a part somewhere along the driveline, or (a guess of mine) too high of a gearing in the rear end (its the stocker unit, 8 1/4 i believe). what makes me think this is that it seems rather gutless, even after a tune up (the usual, air filter, plugs, wires, etc) especially pulling a hill even empty. Did we goof, is it too high of a gearing rear end (i cant see it likely myself) or something we are missing?
Any help Would be greatly appreceated, and ill definitely be here more often as i have a 77 2 door aspen auto that id like to eventually go mustang and vette hunting with. (my main reason is that, who would suspect an Aspen to be a street killer? especially a leaning tower of power, as ive seen them called?
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