Broken Clutch Return Spring
Broken Clutch Return Spring I have already done the search and found that many people have had this happen, and yesterday when stepping on the clutch to start the car ( boing ) and the spring shot me in the foot. So no big worry there.
Now for the interesting thing and question:
Normally when going through the gear and hitting high RPMs (5000-6800) the clutch would not return all the way, and I would have maybe an inch to be able to change the gears. Everything I have read prior to this said that the fluid was boiling and due to a restriction in between the master and slave the fluid was not returning fast enough(thus the popular drill mod).
Now after the spring broke, I don't have this problem. NONE, I have tried several times since it broke to reproduce the problem with no luck. ( not that I am disappointed )
Is it possible that the return spring was acting like a syringe when pulling liquid in to fast it is very hard to do, and the harder you try to pull in the liquid the harder it gets to do, but if you go slow it actually takes less time?
Is the spring actually causing(or not helping) the problem everyone see's when ripping through the gears and hitting high RPMS by trying to return the peddle back faster then possible?
Finally: Is it really needed? I don't ride with my foot on the peddle anyway.
Could not resist since its related <img border="0" alt="[driving]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_driving3.gif" />
Now for the interesting thing and question:
Normally when going through the gear and hitting high RPMs (5000-6800) the clutch would not return all the way, and I would have maybe an inch to be able to change the gears. Everything I have read prior to this said that the fluid was boiling and due to a restriction in between the master and slave the fluid was not returning fast enough(thus the popular drill mod).
Now after the spring broke, I don't have this problem. NONE, I have tried several times since it broke to reproduce the problem with no luck. ( not that I am disappointed )
Is it possible that the return spring was acting like a syringe when pulling liquid in to fast it is very hard to do, and the harder you try to pull in the liquid the harder it gets to do, but if you go slow it actually takes less time?
Is the spring actually causing(or not helping) the problem everyone see's when ripping through the gears and hitting high RPMS by trying to return the peddle back faster then possible?
Finally: Is it really needed? I don't ride with my foot on the peddle anyway.
Could not resist since its related <img border="0" alt="[driving]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_driving3.gif" />
Re: Broken Clutch Return Spring that's interesting that the problem went away...i didn't notice that when mine was broken, but i never checked. anyway, i've driven with mine off for 4000 miles before w/ no problems.
