During wheel hop 'testing' after fitting IRS bushings I ended up overheating my clutch to the point of an expensive smelling pungent odor! Ooops.
The clutch has survived 18K miles and 18mnths so far and I haven't been too hard on it.
However, in the last month I'm finding it's engaging at the extreme top of the travel. I've tried pulling up on the pedal and letting it spring up from the floor but it's still the same.
The gear change is very notchy when cold but less so when the box warms up - as expected with the T56.
I've always had to push the clutch hard to the carpet to change gears since I got the car June '02.
Here's what happens:
The clutch doesn't engage at all until I bring the pedal to probably a quarter to a half inch away from the uppermost point of its travel. The car slowly moves off with maybe half maximum pressure on the pedal. When it feels like the clutch is engaged I lift again but the pedal only moves a tiny amount and it feels kinda spongy at the final point of travel - it feels like it was already as far up as it could go.
It seems the engagment point has moved to the extreme top of the pedal travel and there's no more feeling of clutch modulation ability like there was a few 1000 miles ago.
If I floor it in a low gear I'm not getting any clutch slip that I can tell or any smell of burning.
Is this a sign that my clutch is nearly worn out, that I damaged it when testing the wheel hop, or that it needs adjustment?
I have a UPR 3-hook quadrant and fire wall adjuster to fit soon but just wondered if the clutch is going bad.
The clutch has survived 18K miles and 18mnths so far and I haven't been too hard on it.
However, in the last month I'm finding it's engaging at the extreme top of the travel. I've tried pulling up on the pedal and letting it spring up from the floor but it's still the same.
The gear change is very notchy when cold but less so when the box warms up - as expected with the T56.
I've always had to push the clutch hard to the carpet to change gears since I got the car June '02.
Here's what happens:
The clutch doesn't engage at all until I bring the pedal to probably a quarter to a half inch away from the uppermost point of its travel. The car slowly moves off with maybe half maximum pressure on the pedal. When it feels like the clutch is engaged I lift again but the pedal only moves a tiny amount and it feels kinda spongy at the final point of travel - it feels like it was already as far up as it could go.
It seems the engagment point has moved to the extreme top of the pedal travel and there's no more feeling of clutch modulation ability like there was a few 1000 miles ago.
If I floor it in a low gear I'm not getting any clutch slip that I can tell or any smell of burning.
Is this a sign that my clutch is nearly worn out, that I damaged it when testing the wheel hop, or that it needs adjustment?
I have a UPR 3-hook quadrant and fire wall adjuster to fit soon but just wondered if the clutch is going bad.
