T-5 to flathead won't shift into gear with engine running.

[donald1950]

Init1, its not so much that "the clutch is releasing all the way", its that the disk is forced hadr against the flywheel when the splines on the disk's hub bottom out on the input shaft end of the splines and force the disk against the flywheel. that disk has to slide on the splines and once it bottoms out it cannot slide back from the flywheel and you can only see whats happening with the preasure plate removed and looking through the inspection cover hole while sliding the trans into place.... i also had the flathead flywheel drilled to accept a GM ball bearing poilet bushing as teh ford poilet bushing is SAE and the T5 piolet shaft is metric and useing teh ford bushing with teh t5 input shaft will allow the T5 input shaft to wallow in the slightly larger hole. thats is another problem. so much fun........