What happened to my clutch....? [PICS]
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What happened to my clutch....? [PICS]
Sorry for the poor pictures of the flywheel, but I couldn't find my camera phone and the flywheel was still on the car. I don't know if you can tell, but there is a nice blue ring on the outside of the flywheel (like a hot spot). What happened to this clutch? It's a Competition Clutch Stage 2. Brand new flywheel. Less than 2000 miles on both. I followed the break in procedures and was gentle as hell on it for the first 1000 miles.
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When I initially installed the clutch, no. I drew it in a very small bit (about the size of two stacked pennies). I believe it wouldn't go in all the way because the input shaft had a groove in it from the previous pilot bearing. I then dropped the transmission the next week to put in a new flywheel (was using my stock resurfaced flywheel, but I ended up replacing it with a new one to be safe). I drove it for about 1000 miles this way without any problems. I pulled the transmission out a few days ago to send my input shaft in to get re-tipped. It wasn't until then when I pulled the clutch out and noticed this. I used an old input shaft to align the clutch both times.