Clutch Problems

[Meh987]

This happend on my 95 GST with an ACT 2600 clutch.

Last night on my way home from work, I was getting off the interstate. On the offramp, my car felt like it misfired, or skipped, or something like that real quick. Then it was fine. Another 500 feet down the road, my car studderd kinda bad. I tried to downshift, but it wouldn't go into any gear. I pulled over and looked, and nothing seemed out of place. I tried starting it in gear with the clutch depressed, and the car lunged forward. When it actually started, it was studdering kinda bad and the gears were grinding.

It wont go into any gears. When i try to shift into 1-5, it moves the car forward a little, but doesnt make any noise. Reverse grinds. I'm pretty sure that the clutch pedal feels the same. I still have a full resevoir of fluid.

I haven't been able to look at it that much because its stranded 12 miles away. I'm gonna have it towed home tomarrow.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what could be the problem?

 

[Meh987]

I finally got the car towed home. We got the transmission out and found the problem. Turns out the clutch disc got destroyed now. Anyone have any idea how this happened?

 

[my_gst95]

Wow sorry to see man. If you do an advance search on here using "act2600 spring", you can see theres something faulty with the design of the act clutch. Can't remember if it was just an early batch or not, but I do remember a big complaint thread about the same thing happening to others.

my_gst95

 

[Meh987]

I just found out what caused the disk to become destroyed. The dowel pins that align the transmission to the engine were missing. This caused the transmission to be out of alignment and put a lot of stress on that disk, eventually destroying it.

 

[Petrohimself]

I finally got the car towed home. We got the transmission out and found the problem. Turns out the clutch disc got destroyed now. Anyone have any idea how this happened?

I've gotta take some credit for this, ahh yes charles, who was it that assisted you in doing this tedious task, oh none other than ME. id say were the fastest transmission removers on the block.
anyways, I wonder if all the tears and bends in the disk were slowly occuring since we put the clutch in, or if that disaster all just happened when we were coming off the interstate and trying to start it at the truck place having the gears grind. That Slowboy racing disk seems like its meant just for you, try and find it cheaper though if u can.

 

[Petrohimself]

Also, does the abcense..abcence..however its spelled, of the dowel pins make it the only problem which would mean that the ACT street disk isn't frigged up? That kid that sold you the car is lame, also his head probably weighs more than darrens...