Escort killing clutches
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Escort killing clutches
In my Estate running a 2.0 Zetec on throttle bodies and a S2 box, must be 180BHP tops.
Quite often running fully laden with tons of photo gear crammed in the boot/back seats...... and driven hard.
First clutch was a regular 220mm part, lasted a few months, never had a great bite. Eventually slipped really badly when power was applied, drove it for a few weeks like that before changing.
Second clutch was an AP Racing non-paddle unit. Took a few hundred miles to bed in then it was fine. Not an amazing bite, but never slipped. Lasted a coupe of weeks then shatterd into thousands of pieces!
Third clutch was fitted last week, another regular unit. Seemed good for the first few days, no bedding in process. Then it started slipping badly on anything more than half power all of a sudden
Any ideas about the problems? Hardly a huge power car, and clutches lasting a week is not really good enough!
Quite often running fully laden with tons of photo gear crammed in the boot/back seats...... and driven hard.
First clutch was a regular 220mm part, lasted a few months, never had a great bite. Eventually slipped really badly when power was applied, drove it for a few weeks like that before changing.
Second clutch was an AP Racing non-paddle unit. Took a few hundred miles to bed in then it was fine. Not an amazing bite, but never slipped. Lasted a coupe of weeks then shatterd into thousands of pieces!
Third clutch was fitted last week, another regular unit. Seemed good for the first few days, no bedding in process. Then it started slipping badly on anything more than half power all of a sudden
Any ideas about the problems? Hardly a huge power car, and clutches lasting a week is not really good enough!
Last edited by Ade; 31-03-2009 at 08:06 PM.
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Karlos I had a Helix 4 paddle clutch rated for about 260ft plus fitted about a week ago at Jam-Sport and it’s a bitch to drive the clutch is too viscous and aggressive to drive the pedal is a bit hard on biting point and to move off in 1st gear I have to rev it at almost 2000rpm for it to move off smoothly other wise it will judder badly feels like my gearbox is gonna break (I hope not) and the clutch pedal sits too high than the two other pedals but im taking the car back for them to have a look at it. Do you know what it could be or is that normal?
Last edited by makaveli96; 01-04-2009 at 10:17 PM.
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Karlos I had a Helix 4 paddle clutch rated for about 260ft plus fitted about a week ago at Jam-Sport and its a bitch to drive the clutch is too viscous and aggressive to drive the pedal is a bit hard on biting point and to move off in 1st gear I have to rev it at almost 2000rpm for it to move off smoothly other wise it will judder badly feels like my gearbox is gonna break (I hope not) and the clutch pedal sits too high than the two other pedals but im taking the car back for them to have a look at it. Do you know what it could be or is that normal?
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It starts off slipping when changing up on full throttle, and evenually progresses to just slipping whenever more than half power is applied....
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Karlos I had a Helix 4 paddle clutch rated for about 260ft plus fitted about a week ago at Jam-Sport and its a bitch to drive the clutch is too viscous and aggressive to drive the pedal is a bit hard on biting point and to move off in 1st gear I have to rev it at almost 2000rpm for it to move off smoothly other wise it will judder badly feels like my gearbox is gonna break (I hope not) and the clutch pedal sits too high than the two other pedals but im taking the car back for them to have a look at it. Do you know what it could be or is that normal?
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Karlos I had a Helix 4 paddle clutch rated for about 260ft plus fitted about a week ago at Jam-Sport and it’s a bitch to drive the clutch is too viscous and aggressive to drive the pedal is a bit hard on biting point and to move off in 1st gear I have to rev it at almost 2000rpm for it to move off smoothly other wise it will judder badly feels like my gearbox is gonna break (I hope not) and the clutch pedal sits too high than the two other pedals but im taking the car back for them to have a look at it. Do you know what it could be or is that normal?
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Cheers for that advice mate I will tell Jam-Sport about that and see what they think about it but will that also help to stop my car from juddering when I move off in 1st gear at low revs?
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I had a helix pedal clutch for about 4years, my fiesta was driven daily in the maltese traffic and it's an 1.8diesel with 2.7bar boost was like hell. but the clutch was the great. juddered a bit on take off on low revs but the hell with that, changed the front mounting now and then especially when driving back at 4 in the morning with some heavy alcohol powered driving. I would slip the clutch on 4th gear and it would burstn into tyre smoke. It used to run 13.7s. never slipped the clutch . when i took the engine aprat I changed the pads on the clutch diy job with something like 60gbp and faced the flywheel with a little offset to get some of what was worn on the p/plate side. hell another new clutch ready for another 3 year of tashing around.
The trick with any clutch is always check the p/plate to flywheel distance before tightening, should always be from 3 to 5mm .... more or less and you loose the bite...
Warren
Mk1 Cortina
The trick with any clutch is always check the p/plate to flywheel distance before tightening, should always be from 3 to 5mm .... more or less and you loose the bite...
Warren
Mk1 Cortina
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I had a helix pedal clutch for about 4years, my fiesta was driven daily in the maltese traffic and it's an 1.8diesel with 2.7bar boost was like hell. but the clutch was the great. juddered a bit on take off on low revs but the hell with that, changed the front mounting now and then especially when driving back at 4 in the morning with some heavy alcohol powered driving. I would slip the clutch on 4th gear and it would burstn into tyre smoke. It used to run 13.7s. never slipped the clutch . when i took the engine aprat I changed the pads on the clutch diy job with something like 60gbp and faced the flywheel with a little offset to get some of what was worn on the p/plate side. hell another new clutch ready for another 3 year of tashing around.
The trick with any clutch is always check the p/plate to flywheel distance before tightening, should always be from 3 to 5mm .... more or less and you loose the bite...
Warren
Mk1 Cortina
The trick with any clutch is always check the p/plate to flywheel distance before tightening, should always be from 3 to 5mm .... more or less and you loose the bite...
Warren
Mk1 Cortina
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