Got a call from my ex today, she was driving her truck ('94 V6 Xcab) up a hill, had to stop at a light. When the light changed, truck wouldn't move, nothing. Backed it down the hill, level ground, still wouldn't move at all. Odd semi-grinding sound when she let out the clutch. Hmmm...
Had it towed to my house, dropped the tranny this evening. This is what the clutch looked like:
The pile of scrapnel sitting on the towel is what is left of the disc that is supposed to be against the flywheel. It was shredded! The rear half was floating free from the disc center, which is the thing at top center in the photo. All the rivets were gone. Still plenty of material on the rear part.
That clutch is an OEM one, I installed it about 60K ago.
Any ideas why this happened? I've done lots of clutches, never seen an OEM one fail like this.
Had it towed to my house, dropped the tranny this evening. This is what the clutch looked like:
The pile of scrapnel sitting on the towel is what is left of the disc that is supposed to be against the flywheel. It was shredded! The rear half was floating free from the disc center, which is the thing at top center in the photo. All the rivets were gone. Still plenty of material on the rear part.
That clutch is an OEM one, I installed it about 60K ago.
Any ideas why this happened? I've done lots of clutches, never seen an OEM one fail like this.
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