flywheel damaged

[95-talontsi]

Recently my car started making this wierd metal grinding sound when I pushed in my clutch. I thought it was my throw out bearing, but after I got my transmission off my throw out bearing looked fine and spun freely. There was little metal shavings at the bottom of my transmission, so I pulled off my pressure plate and on my clutch disc 2 of my springs and started to come out and were rubbing on the inside of my flywheel, which is what the grinding noise I heard was.

I have a fidanza flywheel, i am just wondering if this would throw my flywheel off balance? since some metal has been tooken off the inside of my flywheel, Its not horrible but it does not look good.

Dont know if I should buy a new outside piece to my flywheel or not or if any one else has any expierience with this.

 

[pur97tsifwd]

i had this same problem i bought a sbr clutch old version and the springs fell out and made a rattling noise and it was hard to shift but none of the springs got into my flywheel i guess i found it soon enough. I bought the new revised sbr clutch and have not had a problem so far i had to buy a new friction surface for my fidanza flywheel. pics of the damage would help if its not to bad i would just check the friction surface and put it back in but if you have alot of money i would buy a new one

 

[95-talontsi]

My clutch was a spec stage 2, I only had about 10,000 miles on the clutch and flywheel. The surface area didnt get damaged from the springs. Ill try and get some pics in the next couple of days.

 

[pur97tsifwd]

the reason my springs fell out was i was engaging the clutch to much the fingers were rubbing on the springs so you might check that out and adjust it so they do not hit

 

[95-talontsi]

I emailed spec about it and they said it could be from resting the imput shaft on the fingers while installing or loose motor mounts. Cause transmission movement is what causes this the guy said.

 

[pur97tsifwd]

that dont sound right to me i think he is wrong

 

[95-talontsi]

This is the email I recieved from spec.

Driveline movement causes the disc to spit springs. It could be install, asletting the trans rest on the disc while lining things up can loosen thecage cover. But there's almost no way to determine that now. The Talon'sare bad about diff/trans/motor mounts with wear...letting the drivelineshift around under load. When that happens, the poor clutch disc, which isclamped down by the pressure plate, has no way to move with the driveline(input shaft) and it tweaks it, spitting out a spring. Most of the time itsjust mount wear that causes that. The only other cause I can think of is aworn trans bearing, which also allows input shaft movement.

 

[pur97tsifwd]

well he could be right i have since then put in poly motor mounts and new carrier bearing and new u-joints