- Now its the clutch
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Le Mans Master
Joined: Nov 1999
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From: San Diego CA
- Now its the clutch
Well, I think I fried my clutch this morning. Taking off good and strong the 1-2 shift engaged and slipped bad - the pedal is now real spongy and the engagement is poor with heavy slippage.
The odd thing about this is that it was very sudden - I'm wondering if something broke. I havent had a chance to crawl under the car for any serious diagnosis so I can t say any more than that but will ask anyway.
Before this the clutch had good pedal pressure with a very noticable resistance part way through the pedal stroke when it would then lighten up.
Now the pedal feels as if there is a simple coil spring attached to it - very little pedal pressure, disengagement is poor and engagement is even poorer - almost in the last 1" of pedal travel - and there is considerable slippage. Is it possible to break the diaphram spring?
There is no noticable noise on engagement or disengagement.
I'm really just trying to diagnose in my head whats going on before I crawl underneath.
So - anybody elses experiences?
BTW this is the clutch that was on the car when I bought it over 5 1/2 years and over 60k miles ago...should I count my blessings and get a new clutch anyway?
I'm thinking Centerforce I - yeah or nay?
The odd thing about this is that it was very sudden - I'm wondering if something broke. I havent had a chance to crawl under the car for any serious diagnosis so I can t say any more than that but will ask anyway.
Before this the clutch had good pedal pressure with a very noticable resistance part way through the pedal stroke when it would then lighten up.
Now the pedal feels as if there is a simple coil spring attached to it - very little pedal pressure, disengagement is poor and engagement is even poorer - almost in the last 1" of pedal travel - and there is considerable slippage. Is it possible to break the diaphram spring?
There is no noticable noise on engagement or disengagement.
I'm really just trying to diagnose in my head whats going on before I crawl underneath.
So - anybody elses experiences?
BTW this is the clutch that was on the car when I bought it over 5 1/2 years and over 60k miles ago...should I count my blessings and get a new clutch anyway?
I'm thinking Centerforce I - yeah or nay?
Burning Brakes
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 1,166
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From: Tulsa Ok
Re: - Now its the clutch (fauxrs)
My guess is you broke an ear off the clutch fork throwing the geometry out of wack. I'd be very surprised if the diaphram went south as there is a whole lot of metal there. Only one way to find out. :smash:
