[s-cars] In the Clutch Report

[bill mahoney]

Having lost count on clutch installs, yes the T/O bearing gave up the ghost
cuz basically the sachs race clutch proved a life of only about two years
having been driven everyday... which required an overabundance of slipping
to drive in pedestrian traffic, which is basically everyone else on the
road.
Though stiff, I liked this clutch a lot and would do it again if it could
have a longer life... It did finally quit in a blaze of smoking clutch and
fusing metal glory, which most fortuitously happened at the top of my
driveway.  Thank you Audi godz.
The happy part of all this is that this repair will be undertaken by my
mechanic who was about to do a rear subframe crossmember install anyhoo.
"Look ma, no dirty hands and aching back;)"
I will be replacing the dumb sachs "plastic" T/O bearing with the 034 metal
one along with a new 034 center driveshaft bearing.  I have a new I think
its carbon kevlar clutch mit a few girly springs in it and hope to mate it
up with a new pressure plate of the same Sachs racing variety.  AFAIK,
tjmmotorsports is the source for this pressure plate.  Their website is
down, but phone apparently still works.   My flywheel is flavored S2 cast
iron.
I "think" this set up should work okay, yes?
BTW check out the cars for sale at Dahlback Racing in Sweden... a urS4 for a
"WTFly enormous" 40 large USD and an RS6+ avant a relative bargain at only
90k ... http://www.dahlbackracing.se/english/main.asp
Thanks for listening.
Bill~now motoring in the heater delete cabrio, open air slugg~M