Did your ACT clutch fail on you? If so, post here

[prostreetdsmx1]

laser- hit me up dude. i got something for you.

 

[v8s_are_slow]

I just ordered my Spec Stage 3+ this week. Should be to me by the end of the week. I'll post updates when it's in my car and running. Bought mine for $380 something total with the lightened pressure plate option from www.titanmotorsports.com

Doubt there's anyone out there beating that kinda price

 

[bklyn_evo]

ok i just installed mine yesterday unaware of all of these issues you guys are having. Im in the buttoning up part of my tranny and cluth install and i just hope and pray you guys dont jinx me.. Im upset now... I have 2900 lb. w 6 puck disc.. I thought that after the install i would be instituting somekind of fear, Im hear fearful myself

 

[gsx951]

ok i just installed mine yesterday unaware of all of these issues you guys are having. Im in the buttoning up part of my tranny and cluth install and i just hope and pray you guys dont jinx me.. Im upset now... I have 2900 lb. w 6 puck disc.. I thought that after the install i would be instituting somekind of fear, Im hear fearful myself

That may not be the ideal clutch set-up for a 2G FWD.

 

[v8s_are_slow]

ok i just installed mine yesterday unaware of all of these issues you guys are having. Im in the buttoning up part of my tranny and cluth install and i just hope and pray you guys dont jinx me.. Im upset now... I have 2900 lb. w 6 puck disc.. I thought that after the install i would be instituting somekind of fear, Im hear fearful myself

You shouldn't really have to worry about the clutch failing on you. The clutch being spoken about is the street disc and the street disc is the only problem. I love the pressure plates, just hate the street disc. If you went with an ACT 6 puck, it's gonna be unsprung and you're gonna have a pretty harsh engagement. Wondering why you went with that setup cause I doubt it's gonna be much fun.

 

[gsx951]

ACT six pucks are available both sprung and unsprung.

 

[v8s_are_slow]

When did this happen? This is the first i've heard. Has there been any problems with springs popping out on these puck disc? Does anyone know?

 

[Chrono]

Mine just died, took it out and its in pieces....Ill get pics soon....I had it for around 4,000 miles..

Chris

 

[94Jettameowpsst]

91 Talon Tsi. All the springs popped out and somehow destroyed my bellhousing

92 3kgtvr4. I just think the clutch was too heavy for the car (3200) and the same thing happened...this time it was due to a bad tob. Crushed all the bearings in the tranny.

 

[Jeremoose]

I've had my 2100 for a few months now. It seems to work ok, but recently started making a weird clicking while pressing the clutch in. I'm hoping it's just a spring on the pedal or something..

Mine was making that clicking starting about 2 weeks ago so I brought my clutch into the shop where it was professionally installed and they adjusted it. It worked fine for about a week after the adjustment and just today the clutch started slipping bad in 2nd and 3rd

Mark up one more Act 2100 clutch failure; it was only on for about a year and a half. Now I don't know what to buy

P.S. I was just reading above that the 6 puck 2100 for example doesn't have the same problems as the street disk but the 6 puck is going to increase the likelihood of crankwalk; how much should this be worried about? And is the engagement too harsh to be streetable on a 6 puck 2100? Link for 6 puck 2100 here.

 

[Coup D E'Tat]

Every local here lives on 2600's with street disks, including myself, without one failure.

Just to update :

over a year later and mine is fine.

 

[blackGSX2g]

I just popped out 1 spring and broke the other in half on my 2600 with maybe 10k miles with very few launches. Lukily it didnt' damage the PP, flywheel, or bellhousing.

A few weeks ago Pinder91 popped out his springs on his 2100 as well.

I'm giving ACT one more chance with my new 2600 set-up...I hate pulling transmissions.

 

[v8s_are_slow]

Mark up one more Act 2100 clutch failure; it was only on for about a year and a half. Now I don't know what to buy

P.S. I was just reading above that the 6 puck 2100 for example doesn't have the same problems as the street disk but the 6 puck is going to increase the likelihood of crankwalk; how much should this be worried about? And is the engagement too harsh to be streetable on a 6 puck 2100?

For starters, it's not the clutch that causes crankwalk issues, but more than likely the heavier pressure plate...ie: ACT 2600.

Anyway, an unsprung disc will be harsher than a sprung. If it's too harsh is all a matter of opinion.

As for another clutch, I'd maybe recommend you research Spec. They have the stage 1, 2, 2+, 3, 3+, 4, and 5. They can also lighten the flywheel as well. I personally bought the stage 3+ and love it thus far. No slipping issues as of yet. Here's some pics of it with the lightened flywheel they did. I also bought mine from www.titanmotorsports.com who sent it out for just over $300 I think.

P.S. Spec has light pedal pressure if you're worried about crankwalk.

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[snowboardguy151]

I've also had a 2600 pp with an actMBSD010S disc in my car, as well as a slew (3) of other brands. All have had the same problems, the spring pockets wearing out and releasing the spring. Failtures also happened with less than 10,000 miles on them. All failures have happened on the spring retainer (top) plate. I have a bolt on (b16g, fmic, maf-t, supporting mods,...) modified car, fwd, mind you. Even with the Slowboy racing 3500 disc (competition clutch), which has double springs, the spring diameter and spring length, which fit in our small diameter clutch, is not able to absorb the jerk torque required to keep the hub off of the stop pins. After all of the trans r&r's, I decided to go with the competition clutch full kevlar face unsprung hub disc.

http://www.dsmtalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=149914

That is a post describing my problems, pics of the 3500 carnage, and my solution (at bottom).

I didn't think of takeing pics of the act disc because it was destroyed, and until I did research, I was just going to buy a new one and chalk it up to a fluke.

I hope my first post was relavent to the topic at hand and hopefully made some sense. Thank you for your time.

Edit: I just remembered I called spec and said that I was constantly loseing springs and they said to get an unsprung hub... Not the answer I was looking for...

 

[seth98es]

Yah my Spec clutch just popped a sping. Re-used the same ACT pressure plate as in my post above. Only about 2,000 miles on this disc! Heres my thread:
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=230643&page=2

I think I am just going to get a cheap eBay clutch since I am not making much power with the 14b. If it fails it fails, only like $70.

 

[v8s_are_slow]

Who knows. Maybe all clutch disc are having problems, but it seems that ACT is having a bigger issue with it. If the Spec clutch I have now ever fails like this, I'm going with an unsprung hub.

 

[blackGSX2g]

I just ordered a new ACT clutch disc from ExtremePSI and it had 4 yellow beefy springs with normal sized ones on the inside. The metal holding them in was at least twice as thick as my old one. Did ACT re-do their street disc?

 

[seth98es]

Idk, but Id rather have one of those then these 6-sping discs I keep getting !

 

[larsrya8]

I just ordered a new ACT clutch disc from ExtremePSI and it had 4 yellow beefy springs with normal sized ones on the inside. The metal holding them in was at least twice as thick as my old one. Did ACT re-do their street disc?

Yes they did.

 

[Aaron91RS]

Sorry to be late to the party. Wish I didn't have to come.
My ACT 2600 failed on my 92 AWD today.
I HAVE my dowel pins and I got way more miles out of it then most of the other guys so I know the thing WAS installed right. In fact it worked great for its life. You can tell even now its not cat haired nor is it worn down to the rivots.

However driving to work the other day I went to shift down to 4th and crap grinding like the clutch wouldn't disengage. Something you expect of a failed master or slave cylinder.
No such luck.
ACT gave me attitiude, told me I got enough miles out of it I should be happy and that they don't make that part they just sell it with their clutch, so it's not their problem.

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[siceclipse]

you cant post off of your desktop, you need the image to be hosted by someone first like photobucket.

 

[bhop]

Another year another victim added to the list.

 

[gsx951]

Sorry to be late to the party. Wish I didn't have to come.
My ACT 2600 failed on my 92 AWD today.
I HAVE my dowel pins and I got way more miles out of it then most of the other guys so I know the thing WAS installed right. In fact it worked great for its life. You can tell even now its not cat haired nor is it worn down to the rivots.

However driving to work the other day I went to shift down to 4th and crap grinding like the clutch wouldn't disengage. Something you expect of a failed master or slave cylinder.
No such luck.
ACT gave me attitiude, told me I got enough miles out of it I should be happy and that they don't make that part they just sell it with their clutch, so it's not their problem.

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It's not just having your dowels in place but also insuring that the transmission goes on straight and does not apply a bending load to the disc.
Something happened in installation that caused the splined hub to be no longer perpendicular to the friction face. Most likely, the input shaft entering the spline at an angle, bending the hub slightly. The result is a fatigue failure of the sprung hub.

The old style ACT sprung clutch hub was Daikin/Exedy part, same as the O.E., if this were an issue with the part, there would be a history of failures going back to 1990.

 

[Drift_SM]

Has any one run into any issues with the new 4 spring disks?

I opted for the 2600 for my new clutch knowing that ACT had gone from 6 small springs to 4 larger springs. Assuming that was the revision for all the failures with the 6 spring disks.

I have yet to hear about any failures.

 

[95talongirl]

I found this by searching. I was wondering if anyone experienced the pressure plate on the ACT clutch set breaking? I bought this 2100 kit 6 months ago. The clutch has 10,000 miles on it. My car is a stock 2g with an exahust. I don't really see a reason for this happening...

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