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Old Jul 20, 2020 | 03:14 PM
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Sudden Loss of clutch

I've recently suddenly lost all feeling of the clutch. I was doing a hard pull 1-2 then 3 didn't want to go in. The pedal turned mushy and soft. I park the car and check for any faulty cylinder. The master and slave cylinder are working well. I adjust/bleed the clutch feeling and it works well again. I put the car in reverse and I hear a weird noise and car stalls. I've lost all response on the clutch again, but the pedal works fine. What could be the problem?

Clutch wasn't doing bad before the problem happened.
Car makes close to 450AWHP

Clutch Spec:
  • ACT heavy duty clutch and pressure plate
  • ACT pro lite flywheel

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Old Jul 20, 2020 | 04:33 PM
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retainer on the throw out might have broke.
you can look down in there and see if its moving the clutch back and forth when you push the pedal.
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Old Jul 21, 2020 | 04:46 AM
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Are you running a monoloc?
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Old Jul 21, 2020 | 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by hutch959
retainer on the throw out might have broke.
you can look down in there and see if its moving the clutch back and forth when you push the pedal.
If that were the problem, the pedal wouldn't be working. It would be stuck the floor. Don't ask how I know x 4.
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Old Jul 23, 2020 | 05:39 AM
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I have to pull down the transmission in all cases. I will be doing it next week and I'll post the results.
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Old Jul 23, 2020 | 04:25 PM
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oh yea.. missed that the pedal worked fine
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Old Aug 4, 2020 | 05:19 AM
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Here are the result. The TOB was also heavily damaged and I had to remove the pressure plate bolt to remove the transmission. Fun experience
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Old Aug 4, 2020 | 06:14 AM
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If that were the problem, the pedal wouldn't be working. It would be stuck the floor. Don't ask how I know x 4.
Holy **** tell me about it !!! I lost mine 3x until I said **** it let's buy a monoloc. Did not happen since.
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Old Aug 4, 2020 | 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Evo9_Dubai
Holy **** tell me about it !!! I lost mine 3x until I said **** it let's buy a monoloc. Did not happen since.
Mine did it WITH a monoloc! It's because I was using ACT TOBs. Changed to OEM, no problems since. I was so pissed...every time I went to the track! 😂

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Here are the result. The TOB was also heavily damaged and I had to remove the pressure plate bolt to remove the transmission. Fun experience
I had the EXACT same happen to me, once.
Remove PP bolts via inspection cover? Check.
Use a grinder to cut teeth away from TOB to get pressure plate out of trans? Check
It took half a day to get that clutch out.
Yeah....I can laugh about it now...
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