No automotive rebuild would be complete without at least one minor disaster. On fireup and driving around there was a clicking noise in the bellhousing with the clutch fully depressed, and an occasional bang, which I mistakenly assumed was an exhaust backfire, as it didn't really have a metallic tone to it.

Turns out there are three roll pins pressed into the pressure plate through the clutch fingers. Well, there were three roll pins. Two of them fell out and bounced around inside the bellhousing smashing the living shit out of everything. I finally got around to pulling the transmission and bellhousing today, removed all the debris, and pulled the one remaining roll pin out of the pressure plate. What do these roll pins do? I have absolutely no idea. The clutch seems to work just fine without them.

Oh, and about those roll pins. I managed to fish one out using a magnet during some exploratory investigation a couple nights ago, and there was one still in the pressure plate. The third one? No idea. It disappeared.