Trans, Diff, torque tube questions?
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St. Jude Donor '07-'08-'09-'10-'11-'12'-'13-'14-'15
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St. Jude Donor '07-'08-'09-'10-'11-'12'-'13-'14-'15
Well I took my clutch plate and pressure plate to a buddy who knows his $h!t and he said that both are smoked. I knew the clutch plate was toast but now I am on the hook for a whole new clutch. This sucks MONKEY A$$!
I have called Jerrod at Textralia and sent him the pics of the clutch, plates, etc. I guess I will see what he comes back with. I have heard good things about them but dont know how they will handle this. I will update the thread when I hear back from him.
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I have called Jerrod at Textralia and sent him the pics of the clutch, plates, etc. I guess I will see what he comes back with. I have heard good things about them but dont know how they will handle this. I will update the thread when I hear back from him.
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Holy snikes!!
Can't believe this happened. The only way I could see this happening from the limited amount of time the clutch was in the car is if it was not fully engaging.
I agree, this would lead to shifting problems and such, but I can't imagine any other way...unless the X-grip was just overpowered all of the time, but I don't think anything with less than 500-rwhp would overpower an X-grip.
Can't believe this happened. The only way I could see this happening from the limited amount of time the clutch was in the car is if it was not fully engaging.
I agree, this would lead to shifting problems and such, but I can't imagine any other way...unless the X-grip was just overpowered all of the time, but I don't think anything with less than 500-rwhp would overpower an X-grip.
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My stock clutch has held up to about 25- 30 passes, doing the same method of burnouts (in 2nd gear) over the last 6 yrs. Same original clutch, p/p, f/w. Good luck.
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Holy snikes!!
Can't believe this happened. The only way I could see this happening from the limited amount of time the clutch was in the car is if it was not fully engaging.
I agree, this would lead to shifting problems and such, but I can't imagine any other way...unless the X-grip was just overpowered all of the time, but I don't think anything with less than 500-rwhp would overpower an X-grip.
Can't believe this happened. The only way I could see this happening from the limited amount of time the clutch was in the car is if it was not fully engaging.
I agree, this would lead to shifting problems and such, but I can't imagine any other way...unless the X-grip was just overpowered all of the time, but I don't think anything with less than 500-rwhp would overpower an X-grip.
You know I did have some slight shifting issues into 3 and 4 gear but I figured it was just cause I was shifting at too high RPM (3-4K) or the shifter needed to be realigned. I aligned it once when I installed it and all was well until the clutch had about 500-600 miles on it. I figured the shifter had just slipped a little or something or I just sucked at finding the gears
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Holding the brake during a burnout would ABSOLUTELY not do that to a clutch. It will burn up your rear brakes, yes, but your clutch will not complain at all as long as it is fully engaged. To burn a clutch up like that you were either overpowering it, not fully engaging, leaking on it or something of that matter. It was not held still between the flywheel/pressure plate. Further inspection is required to find out exactly WHY, but I will bet my car that is has nothing to do with holding the brake pedal.
