My Experience with SPEC Clutch
Jan 27, 2010, 06:19 PM
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I dont have the time to pursue legal action. For what.. $500.00. In the end.. if this causes them to pull this clutch off the shelf and fix the design flaws.. then we will all win. My bet is that they wont change the clutch... or they will change the offset and say " here.. we fixed it.." and sell to some poor sap @ $1400.00 to test it for them.
-Rob
-Rob
Jan 27, 2010, 06:27 PM
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I would love to see SPEC's response to this thread. I was just looking at a SPEC Super Twin in the "for sale" thread. Lets just say I won't be putting in any offers... On a side note, I'm patiently waiting for the release of the new Quartermaster
Jan 27, 2010, 06:31 PM
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I was looking at that new QM too... MAP is going to carry that ( i think). I just couldn't wait for it to come out. I need to get this car up and running.
On a side note.. there really isn't much that SPEC can say that I haven't said already.
On a side note.. there really isn't much that SPEC can say that I haven't said already.
Jan 27, 2010, 06:40 PM
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dont hold your breath on spec helping you with your parts......ive been waiting over 6 months....and still nothing, i ended up buying a new transmission.......had a similar issue....may post pics later!
Jan 27, 2010, 11:54 PM
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can one of you guys get a picture of the other side of the clutch plate that stripped the splines? the offset looks really odd on the disk, and the fact that only half the disk is using splines seems even more weird.
Jan 28, 2010, 06:34 AM
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it looks like the plate was installed backwards to me. usually the offset section faces the transmission. your pictures show it backwards. thats possibly also why the rivets broke off on the other plate, and why your splines are stripped, but only 2/3 down the plate. i can't say for certain because i have never installed a spec clutch before, but if it were any other clutch (exedy, QM, ACT, HKS etc...) it definately would have been installed incorrectly.
Jan 28, 2010, 06:42 AM
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it looks like the plate was installed backwards to me. usually the offset section faces the transmission. your pictures show it backwards. thats possibly also why the rivets broke off on the other plate, and why your splines are stripped, but only 2/3 down the plate. i can't say for certain because i have never installed a spec clutch before, but if it were any other clutch (exedy, QM, ACT, HKS etc...) it definately would have been installed incorrectly.
*******it, I *just* got done putting one of these in my car, after the V1 P-trim ate ****. along with a fresh from buschur transmission.
I think I'm going to go throw up.
Jan 28, 2010, 07:29 AM
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i suppose its possible, but the unit doesn't fit correctly if you get that wrong. And there are stickers on all of the discs to make sure that you don't do that. Now that I think about it, if you got the second disc in backwards, I doubt it would even engage on the input shaft.
*******it, I *just* got done putting one of these in my car, after the V1 P-trim ate ****. along with a fresh from buschur transmission.
I think I'm going to go throw up.
*******it, I *just* got done putting one of these in my car, after the V1 P-trim ate ****. along with a fresh from buschur transmission.
I think I'm going to go throw up.
exactly. if it fit correctly, does a normal clutch shear the rivets off and strip the splines? maybe spec is putting the stickers on incorrect for which side faces the tranny and which the flywheel.