clutch

[K0R3AN]

one day, my friend's car would start and die instantly. we finally concluded that it was the trans and took it into a transmission shop to get it checked out. after a day or so, we get a call from the shop saying that the clutch and flywheel had been welded together...

i've personally never heard of this or seen it, but it was a costly problem. anyone else ever heard of this happening? it was on a 3g eclipse, aftermarket clutch and flywheel.

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[CrawlinTBSS]

alot of heat could fuse it together...but that would be like him slipping the shit out of it or driving it really hard and creating alot of heat...

 

[M@]

I've heard of clutch frictions and plates welding together....on top fuel cars...

Sounds like he got taken for a ride.

 

[Runtz52]

my dads 51 chevy that were restoring, the clutch and flywheel rusted together, but as for welding together, only in top fuels as stated before, sounds like he got fucked by the shop

 

[02BlueGT]

my dads 51 chevy that were restoring, the clutch and flywheel rusted together, but as for welding together, only in top fuels as stated before, sounds like he got fucked by the shop

I don't think there is enough metal in the friction material to allow that(it is like brake pads, it contains many friction materials, including some metals).... and if it was welded, the car wouldn't even crank over without moving the drive wheels.....

I could see the clutch housing fusing to the fly wheel, but that shit is bolted together anyway

 

[Runtz52]

its may not have been the clutch to the flywheel now that im thinking about it, my dad was telling me about it and he said he was hoping he could start it and then drop the clutch to break (whatever is stuck together in there) loose from what its rusted too

 

[K0R3AN]

haha. well i saw it at the shop... it was pretty wild. and i was the one driving prior to this incident, and there was no slipping or hard driving.... it doesnt make sense. lol. it actually started acting goofy while i was driving. it stalled out when i was at a stop light so i pumped the clutch a little bit and it was fine after that.

 

[Sprayin]

Its possible, there is metal behind the friction material. If it was slipping really bad, or someone thought they were doing a burn out, when in fact they were just roasting their clutch, it could get hot enough, but it would have had to been happening for a long time.

 

[E]

Would have to see it to believe it. Get any pics?

 

[K0R3AN]

unfortunately i have no pics. i should've though. but i told him to scrap that piece of junk. haha

 

[02DyeFour]

one day, my friend's car would start and die instantly. we finally concluded that it was the trans and took it into a transmission shop to get it checked out. after a day or so, we get a call from the shop saying that the clutch and flywheel had been welded together...

i've personally never heard of this or seen it, but it was a costly problem. anyone else ever heard of this happening? it was on a 3g eclipse, aftermarket clutch and flywheel.

ACK!! lol

 

[The Broken Regal]

rofl you did that to ack's eclipse??/ hahaahaha im gonna tell tony

 

[K0R3AN]

hahaha poor ack! Noooooo dont tell tony!!! LOL