This all starts with a very cheap clutch from ebay, later found out that it was all a scam and I ended up with a stock pressure plate. It was the XTD stage 2. Well I drive it like there is a baby on board for a bit over a hundred miles. One night I was feeling a little rambunctious and thought I would take it to redline. What a mistake. As soon as I shift it into second I hear a very loud BANG. I pull the car over to the side and it still can shift into gear, at first I thought it was something else, but the whole car was shaking and putting it into any gear was a real job. I take it apart and find that a piece of the pressure plate somehow came lose and cut the bell housing open pretty bad. I put a new clutch in, inspect the cuts to the bell housing, they didn't seem too bad. Just some very clean slices. I throw the new clutch in and get ready to have my baby back, and not limping. Well...it didn't work out that way. The car still has a very heavy shake to it. Not as bad with the new clutch, but it is still present. Also, about one out of five times when I start to move I get this HORRIBLE scary sound coming from the clutch area. I can feel the shake kick up and then a sound like CLACK,CLACK,CLACK. Just like the pressure plate is hitting the bell housing or something. It's off the road now and I know I don't need another clutch. My only option right now is to buy a new r154, but I'd still like to know why this is happening. Or if its not even transmission related.
Thank you all very much.
Thank you all very much.
