Another Ram bites the dust...
05-20-2006, 01:35 PM
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Another Ram bites the dust... I have the HD and a spring came out of the disk ruining everything. Gotta love these clutches! I guess its either lose your legs or replace your clutch and flywheel all the time. I guess we cant win with clutches 
Guess Ill need another flywheel. This was a NEW Ram billet steel piece.
Who else has had a spring come out? Pics to come soon.
Guess Ill need another flywheel. This was a NEW Ram billet steel piece.Who else has had a spring come out? Pics to come soon.
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05-21-2006, 11:40 AM
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Yep. The SAME thing happened to me a few months or so ago. First of all, who did you buy your clutch from? Depending on who, it's possible for you to get the clutch replaced for free. Especially since the spring popped out. As soon as I found out what happened to mine, I made some calls. Send me a pm and I can lead you in the right direction.
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05-22-2006, 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by ddnspider
if youre going turbo just throw in a spec 5 and call it a day.They arent the sprung hub clutches so they shouldnt blow up like the 3's and they squeal for a bit at the beginning and its almost gone after a few hundred miles.
I dropped the turbo idea and selling my kit. There was a stage 5 that blew up taking out a Vette here locally
05-22-2006, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Country Boy
Il going to call who I got it from On Monday. I got it from Texas Speed. The sad part is im on street radials on the street and it broke.
TSP will definately help you out, or they should atleast. Also contact Mike at RAM. Good luck.When mine popped out, all I was doing was backing the car up and BAM, it happened.
05-22-2006, 09:17 AM
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did you notice in that thread that BOTH cars were Vettes not Fbody's,ie different clutch.Sounds like Spec had quality control issues with the vette clutches.And the spec 5's dont have sprung hubs which are the 1's prone to blow like my spec 3,which didnt blow and lasted 40,000 Miles that everyone loves to hate.
05-22-2006, 10:20 AM
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Spring hubs are generally not a good idea with metallic friction. Many manufacturers try to make the aggressive friction materials more streetable by using the spring hubs. In reality, the solid hub disks will generally chatter less with metallic friction.
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Originally Posted by ddnspider
if youre going turbo just throw in a spec 5 and call it a day.They arent the sprung hub clutches so they shouldnt blow up like the 3's and they squeal for a bit at the beginning and its almost gone after a few hundred miles.
05-22-2006, 02:17 PM
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TSP couldnt help and I called Ram... what a F&^(*king joke?! Tech hours are only from 9-11 and 1-3?! Great service! Im going to email them now and point them to this thread....
06-20-2006, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Country Boy
I have to send it in to be "inspected"?!?!?!
Samething here, we have to send it back for inspection. Blah! I think I was backing the car up as well when it let go. Better not get a replacement and the same damn thing happens again.
