Is It Suppose To Smell Burned Clutch?
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Thank you for your detailed response. I'm intrested on the test you suggested. If I understand this correcty, have my car in first gear, press the clutch all the way and step on the gas. On levelled
ground my car should start rolling if my hydraulics is messed
up?
On driving style, i doubt that it's the case because I have two othe stick shifts which I drive more often. I didn't these issue on those. This is why Im wondering if there's anything specuial with Porsche cluthes that I nees
to be awaere of.
ground my car should start rolling if my hydraulics is messed
up?
On driving style, i doubt that it's the case because I have two othe stick shifts which I drive more often. I didn't these issue on those. This is why Im wondering if there's anything specuial with Porsche cluthes that I nees
to be awaere of.
I really don't want to bring this in a shop now because just the inspection will cost $100....
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If it passes that test and the test that was mentioned about putting it in a high gear at 10mph and going WOT then your clutch is probably fine. Are you sure it is clutch smell? Could it be a brake smell?
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Yeah, it's a clutch smell. I'll try the high gear test and update this thread on what happened. Thank you for the advices.
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It depends on the type of miles. You should try to get 500 city miles on it to break it in. Just cruising the interstate isn't going to do it.
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It is 500 city miles. I still didn't had a chance to do the 5th gear test.
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It could be worse actually, you mentioned gear 2 slips or is hard to engage every now and then? Is it getting worse?
I did, and I went through 3 clutch disks (driving very smoothly) very quickly until I got the transmission repaired, as it had bad syncros for gear 2. I ended up replacing all my syncros to steel ones, as I wanted to get it prepped for DE racing. Sorry for the bad news if that's also your issue.
I did, and I went through 3 clutch disks (driving very smoothly) very quickly until I got the transmission repaired, as it had bad syncros for gear 2. I ended up replacing all my syncros to steel ones, as I wanted to get it prepped for DE racing. Sorry for the bad news if that's also your issue.
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It could be worse actually, you mentioned gear 2 slips or is hard to engage every now and then? Is it getting worse?
I did, and I went through 3 clutch disks (driving very smoothly) very quickly until I got the transmission repaired, as it had bad syncros for gear 2. I ended up replacing all my syncros to steel ones, as I wanted to get it prepped for DE racing. Sorry for the bad news if that's also your issue.
I did, and I went through 3 clutch disks (driving very smoothly) very quickly until I got the transmission repaired, as it had bad syncros for gear 2. I ended up replacing all my syncros to steel ones, as I wanted to get it prepped for DE racing. Sorry for the bad news if that's also your issue.
So your saying that my car having bad 2nd gear synchro is causing my clutch disk to wear out sooner? How does those gear affect the clutch use? Thank you.
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You'd have to ask a transmission guy about that, I don't know. All I know is that I replaced the clutch 3 times in the space of 6 months, and once I fixed the transmission, the clutch has been perfect even after a lot of very hard driving. I've been tracking it, and have had to take the engine out a couple of times to work on it, and the disk is still in perfect shape after several of years.
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