moosestang

I pulled my spec stage 2 today. I thought it was worn out, but instead, it appears it got some oil contamination from the grease I tried to use to pop out the pilot bearing. The grease I couldn't get out of the crank cavity turned back into oil and slowly leaked out onto the flywheel and clutch disk.

So in this instance, it really was install error. I could have kept driving on it, but the chatter was getting worse and it wasn't grabbing on takeoff like it used to.

I have my own bearing puller/slide hammer now, so a new pilot bearing has been installed. I should have the new spec stage 3+ installed tomorrow. Wish I had known it was my own stupidity, I would have ordered another stage 2. Clutch has 20k miles on it, some of that with drag radials, 1 trip to the track.

Back side of the replaceable friction disk for the spec flywheel





flywheel side

moosestang

Spec is now including pilot bearings with their clutches. If you get one, through that **** away! It is cheap crap compared to the ford part. I all ready had a replacement pilot bearing and the spec supplied one feels like plastic in comparison.

Diabolical!

There are some heavy burns on there. I use the grease trick to pop out the old bearing as well, but I use playdoh instead of grease. Less messy and all of it comes right out when you're done.

timmbo

Funny but this works!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKmq9BlvfJI

Diabolical!

I've heard of people using white bread. I wonder if the clean up is as easy as it is with playdoh. It looks like it works exactly the same.

moosestang

At least white bread will heat up and turn to dust, not seperate into a honey like oil and leak out on your clutch disk.

This is what I used. it was on sale for $39 when I bought it.

http://www.harborfreight.com/blind-h...ler-95987.html

worked great, except the bearing came out in two pieces, so I had to use a small abor and then a larger one. Works great for removing motorcycle wheel bearings too.

I didn't even put any grease on the input shaft this time, just a little, and I mean little bit of copper anti-seize.

Diabolical!

I completely forgot to put ANY grease on the input shaft last time I did the job, and it hasn't caused any unwanted noise, so you should be fine.