[s-cars] Clutch wear question

[Fred Munro]

Another data point - just had the clutch removed from the S4 today. 270,000
kms on it. Felt a little "pop" in the pedal Friday and the clutch wouldn't
completely disengage after that. Good opportunity to practice clutchless
"rev-matching" shifting. The clutch disc is about half worn - lots of life
yet. The flywheel and pressure plate surfaces are in excellent condition. A
couple of pressure plate fingers had failed - pooched pressure plate.
Bit of a wrestle getting the tranny out, some uniquely positioned fasteners
in there...
Lots of $$$ parts on order - new rear main seal, tranny input shaft seal,
pressure plate, disc, release bearing, bearing guide sleeve, the list goes
on and on. I have a sharp intense pain in the vicinity of my wallet.

Fred Munro
'94 S4 (clutchless but not automatic)

-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of LsClmmr at cs.com
Sent: January 20, 2006 2:18 PM
To: Scar
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Clutch wear question


Less than half worn..

264.5K miles...still counting and not slipping

Les Clemmer
95.5 S6

Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote:

>wow, that's a long-lived clutch.  i was thinking about
>a 6-spd upgrade, too, and figured i'd do it when the
>clutch needs replacement.  but mine has 132k miles on it,
>which means it's only a little more than half-worn if
>yours is any indication.
>
>-t.

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