This Clutch is a B*tch...
08-18-2010, 12:52 PM
#23
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If the clutch and pressure plate are fine then no you don't have to replace the clutch.
08-19-2010, 05:19 AM
#26
I think the noise your hearing is just the TOB. You can get to the TOB without taking off the clutch or pressure plate which then you wouldn't have to resurface the flywheel. If you replace the pilot bearing you will have to take off the clutch and pressure plate and a flywheel resurface would be in order.
If the clutch and pressure plate are fine then no you don't have to replace the clutch.
If the clutch and pressure plate are fine then no you don't have to replace the clutch.
08-26-2010, 08:01 AM
#27
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Location: New Jersey
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hey guys -
So over the course of the past week (approx ~800 miles), the clutch sound has gone away. This morning I go to start my car, it starts hissing again. So I'm driving like a grandma on the highway this morning on my daily hell of a commute, and all of the sudden I go to switch gears, and I lost pressure in my clutch pedal. The clutch pedal length from top to bottom (depressing the clutch) literally is 1/4 what it was yesterday, and its nearly impossible to switch gears. I kept it in 5th gear until I got to the exit where I get off for work, and it was screetching like absolute HELL. It didn't matter whether the clutch was depressed or if I left it in neutral at a stoplight. It literally sounds like two giant pieces of metal scraping against each other. Is it this son of a bitch possessed throwout bearing of mine? Would it cause the clutch pedal to adjust and lose some of its compression and then on the next shift gain a sh*tload of compression but only at the very bottom? This is a goddamn nightmare. Please help! I'm taking a half day at work so I can ***ATTEMPT*** to drive it to my buddies garage and get the bitch up on the lift.
So over the course of the past week (approx ~800 miles), the clutch sound has gone away. This morning I go to start my car, it starts hissing again. So I'm driving like a grandma on the highway this morning on my daily hell of a commute, and all of the sudden I go to switch gears, and I lost pressure in my clutch pedal. The clutch pedal length from top to bottom (depressing the clutch) literally is 1/4 what it was yesterday, and its nearly impossible to switch gears. I kept it in 5th gear until I got to the exit where I get off for work, and it was screetching like absolute HELL. It didn't matter whether the clutch was depressed or if I left it in neutral at a stoplight. It literally sounds like two giant pieces of metal scraping against each other. Is it this son of a bitch possessed throwout bearing of mine? Would it cause the clutch pedal to adjust and lose some of its compression and then on the next shift gain a sh*tload of compression but only at the very bottom? This is a goddamn nightmare. Please help! I'm taking a half day at work so I can ***ATTEMPT*** to drive it to my buddies garage and get the bitch up on the lift.
08-26-2010, 08:45 AM
#30
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Location: Ohio
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OK well heres the thing. TOB is gone. Who knows about the integrity of everything else involved -BECAUSE of the TOB failing. Likely, your clutch COULD be just fine. Wont know till you open it up, but why waste all the time removing the tranny one time, only to do it again when you put a new clutch in?