Clutch rattle
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From: Louisville
Clutch rattle
Okay, when the car is idling I hear a lot of rattling until I press in the clutch. If I turn the car off, it sounds like something is about to fall apart unless I have the clutch in. Now my clutch has less than 500 miles on it and I'm just wondering if this is normal and I never noticed it or what. Thanks or any help you can give me.
Nate
Nate
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Re: Clutch rattle (ltnate)
you should not hear your clutch when you are at idle. The shut down thing is normal. To avoid it, turn car off with clutch in... ltNate if you come to the poker run on saturday http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=610304 then we all can listen to it and give our best opinion.
Racer
Joined: Oct 2001
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From: San Clemente CA
Re: Clutch rattle (ltnate)
Hi,
This is not a clutch problem it is a driveline clatter. The C4’s used a dual-mass flywheel to reduce this effect. We have lighter, cheaper solid flywheels and they can transmit a vibration to the driveline from the engine. Chevy tried to eliminate the need for a dual-mass flywheel by using computer balancing of our engines after assembly. The little weights that are pushed into the damper and the flywheel are from this computer balancing.
Go to this web site to read all about it:
http://www.luk.de/english/Produkte/index.html
This is the company, LUK, that makes the stock clutches.
Good luck,
Steve
:seeya
This is not a clutch problem it is a driveline clatter. The C4’s used a dual-mass flywheel to reduce this effect. We have lighter, cheaper solid flywheels and they can transmit a vibration to the driveline from the engine. Chevy tried to eliminate the need for a dual-mass flywheel by using computer balancing of our engines after assembly. The little weights that are pushed into the damper and the flywheel are from this computer balancing.
Go to this web site to read all about it:
http://www.luk.de/english/Produkte/index.html
This is the company, LUK, that makes the stock clutches.
Good luck,
Steve
:seeya
