I Never See questions about clutch problems
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Have I overlooked them somehow? What is the most common problem and usual solutions? Mine seems fine, but I am curious.
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Problems seem to come and go in clumps here. Anyway, a bad clutch will give you a shudder and backlash in the drivetrain, or will slip when you try and give it power. If the peddle drops to the floor, your master or slave clutch cylinder are bad most likely. Changing the clutch is a huge PITA.
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will this shutter be when you have the pedal in? i have a little vibration i can feel when i have my foot on right before it starts to grab. never felt it until i got the new clutch and engine mounts. the speed of the pulsating seems to have gone up in the past 2 months.
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Kenny, a lot depends on the kind/age of clutch you have in the car. If it's the stock rubber-centered kind, a shudder is not a good sign.
OTOH, if you had it replaced with a spring-centered unit, they tend to allow more vibration, but it's par for the course.
If your clutch is original on the car, you may want to consider having it replaced in the near futre. Anything over 60K miles is borrowed time on a 944 clutch, IMHO.
OTOH, if you had it replaced with a spring-centered unit, they tend to allow more vibration, but it's par for the course.
If your clutch is original on the car, you may want to consider having it replaced in the near futre. Anything over 60K miles is borrowed time on a 944 clutch, IMHO.
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Sure, they can last longer, but the car's performance drops (aka clutch slippage). I just put a new clutch in the 83 after 60K miles. The old clutch was still working, but the car now feels like it has a ton more torque. As in, the clutch is new. ![Smilie](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif)
How long have you had your car? I'm just speaking from 10 years of owning/maintaining these cars, FWIW.
YMMV
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How long have you had your car? I'm just speaking from 10 years of owning/maintaining these cars, FWIW.
YMMV
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Legoland951 had a 944 with 400,000 miles on the original clutch and engine!
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"i have a little vibration i can feel when i have my foot on right before it starts to grab.
That could be motor-mounts. At least on my car, replacing the motor mounts removed all the vibration. And I just spent the last two weeks working on my clutch. Turned one the throw-out bearing assembly had fallen apart. The circlip that holds it together slipped... grr... Hans & Frans engineering again. They should have reversed the collar so that pulling on the bearing pushes the collar into the bearing rather than pulling it out.
That could be motor-mounts. At least on my car, replacing the motor mounts removed all the vibration. And I just spent the last two weeks working on my clutch. Turned one the throw-out bearing assembly had fallen apart. The circlip that holds it together slipped... grr... Hans & Frans engineering again. They should have reversed the collar so that pulling on the bearing pushes the collar into the bearing rather than pulling it out.