Found out what the sound coming from my tranny...
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Found out what the sound coming from my tranny was...
Hey guys,
A week or so back an awful loud sound was coming from my tranny. Also, the car would not go into gear easily and had NO power whatsover. Keep in mind I just had a new clutch and flywheel installed a month or so ago. The shop I took it to pulled the tranny and found that all but one of the flywheel bolts had backed out and basically the clutch and flywheel couldnt work properly. This also caused my crankshaft to get marred up from all of that heat. My question for you guys is whether you think this was caused by improper clutch install (the mechanic at the shop said he didnt see any lock-tight on the FW bolts) or if it was just bad luck? Not only did this cause my brand new $350 flywheel to be destroyed, I had to pay another $1,000 in labor costs. What do you guys think?
A week or so back an awful loud sound was coming from my tranny. Also, the car would not go into gear easily and had NO power whatsover. Keep in mind I just had a new clutch and flywheel installed a month or so ago. The shop I took it to pulled the tranny and found that all but one of the flywheel bolts had backed out and basically the clutch and flywheel couldnt work properly. This also caused my crankshaft to get marred up from all of that heat. My question for you guys is whether you think this was caused by improper clutch install (the mechanic at the shop said he didnt see any lock-tight on the FW bolts) or if it was just bad luck? Not only did this cause my brand new $350 flywheel to be destroyed, I had to pay another $1,000 in labor costs. What do you guys think?
totally sounds like an error on there part. cars are cars and they all do crazy things. but in all of my years i have never seen one take its self apart without some kind of user error 
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1 of 2 things:
1. the flywheel wasnt torqued @ all
or
2. the flywheel didnt seat fully onto the crankshaft even though the bolts were torqued.
this could have happened due to debris between the flywheel & crankshaft, out of tolerance flywheel machining, etc. so after very little use, the flywheel seated = making the bolts loose, as there was no clamping force being applied since the flywheel wasnt fully seated onto the crank.
it sucks either way.
they should pay for it, as it was comlete assembly error. even if the flywheel was defective, they installed a defective flywheel.
did you buy the parts from the installer?
1. the flywheel wasnt torqued @ all
or
2. the flywheel didnt seat fully onto the crankshaft even though the bolts were torqued.
this could have happened due to debris between the flywheel & crankshaft, out of tolerance flywheel machining, etc. so after very little use, the flywheel seated = making the bolts loose, as there was no clamping force being applied since the flywheel wasnt fully seated onto the crank.
it sucks either way.
they should pay for it, as it was comlete assembly error. even if the flywheel was defective, they installed a defective flywheel.
did you buy the parts from the installer?
Last edited by Aby@MIL.SPEC; May 25, 2007 at 04:00 PM.
Hey guys,
A week or so back an awful loud sound was coming from my tranny. Also, the car would not go into gear easily and had NO power whatsover. Keep in mind I just had a new clutch and flywheel installed a month or so ago. The shop I took it to pulled the tranny and found that all but one of the flywheel bolts had backed out and basically the clutch and flywheel couldnt work properly. This also caused my crankshaft to get marred up from all of that heat. My question for you guys is whether you think this was caused by improper clutch install (the mechanic at the shop said he didnt see any lock-tight on the FW bolts) or if it was just bad luck? Not only did this cause my brand new $350 flywheel to be destroyed, I had to pay another $1,000 in labor costs. What do you guys think?
A week or so back an awful loud sound was coming from my tranny. Also, the car would not go into gear easily and had NO power whatsover. Keep in mind I just had a new clutch and flywheel installed a month or so ago. The shop I took it to pulled the tranny and found that all but one of the flywheel bolts had backed out and basically the clutch and flywheel couldnt work properly. This also caused my crankshaft to get marred up from all of that heat. My question for you guys is whether you think this was caused by improper clutch install (the mechanic at the shop said he didnt see any lock-tight on the FW bolts) or if it was just bad luck? Not only did this cause my brand new $350 flywheel to be destroyed, I had to pay another $1,000 in labor costs. What do you guys think?
Wow sorry to hear Fred
What shop ? and it def sound like that shop dropped the ball !
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