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Re: clutch engaging REALLY low...updated #62448 06/07/02 01:53 AM
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 153 SD S ScottK97SEMTX Member
ScottK97SEMTX Member S Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 153 SD	Quote: Originally posted by skid123: Quote: Originally posted by Dustyn: [b]Hmmm an ohh so familiar conversation. I will bet money that the next one fails also. Nobody cares to hear the solution. Just keep buying clutchs maybe you will ask after the next slave goes bad. :rolleyes: mmmkay, whats the solution? EDIT: Found you post in the other thread I started... Quote: Originally poseted by Dustyn: I think you and I are both in the same boat. I just put a ram Hd clutch im my SVT about two weeks ago. After 600 miles I downshifted an let out hard on the clutch nothing but slippage. I talked to terry about and he also has had the same problem. The problem lies within the slave cylinder. There is a diffrence between a zetec slave and duratec slave cylinder. Just think of as an accordian tube the pushes out out and retracts in. The zetec one has less travel inwards not letting all the pressure go onto the clutch pack the way I understand it. But has more travel outwards causing it to push further than it should. In turn rupturing the accordian tube. My clutch was on back order and I figured that they just threw the wrong slave in. . I got my clutch from ram they are sending me a whole new set and I am suppose to send them the old one back and they will reinburse me if they find that they sent me the wrong part. I am also going to throw my labor bill in the box also Your saying I was sent the wrong slave cylinder??? -neal[/b] Get the engineering P/N off the failed slave. Call Bill Jenkins and have him cross-check that against the correct P/N for the V6. There is probably no real legal recourse for you to get your labor money back, but at least you'll know what happened. I know the grizzly pressure plates are bought at a Ford dealer in Rochester, the throw out bearings probably are too. 97 SE MTX, KKM, UR UDP, 19# Injectors, SVT TB, SVT UIM, SVT Flywheel, Grizzly Street Clutch, Upgraded motor mounts, mystifed precats, brand new main cat, SVT exhaust sans resonator, 205-55-15 Dunlop SP5000's 154hp / 156 tq before the SVT exhaust, SVT dual honed upper and swapping the mystery main cat for mystery precats. My Profile

Re: clutch engaging REALLY low...updated #62449 06/07/02 04:03 PM
Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 563 Southern Indiana D Dustyn Member
Dustyn Member D Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 563 Southern Indiana	Thats what it sounds like to me. I am hoping thats the same thing that is wrong with mine. Very dissapionting to put a new clutch in and then to have it not work correctly. I have heard some other guys talk about there clutchs slipping. But I can't remember who they were. It clearly states in rams website that an hydrlyic clutch is suppose to disengage and engage close to the floor. Mine engages and disengages at the top of the pedal. I have bleed the slave mulitple times so I know its gotta be a faulty slave. Where does your clutch engage and disengage at? Dustyn Red 1998 SVT E1 95 Mustang GT Yeah there both slow New ram clutch for sale Sho shop pullies and belt for sale 30 bucks

Re: clutch engaging REALLY low...updated #62450 06/07/02 04:09 PM
Joined: May 2001 Posts: 651 Grenada, MS A a_svt_what??? OP Member
OP a_svt_what??? Member A Joined: May 2001 Posts: 651 Grenada, MS	well, it was engaging at the top when it was working right. Now the clutch is just sunk to the floor and is not drivable. Had to get it towed. I know I could have driven it w/o the clutch but I really didnt want to mess anything else up. I could push the clutch to the floor with my pinky finger. He is suppose to be pulling the trans today and putting in my old slave cylinder. It look fine and he thought it'd be ok to put back in. But yes I'm very pissed. Grizzly is being absolutely no help either -neal 99 SVT...modified 96 GL....the beater "I live my life a quarter mile at a time. For those 14 to 15 seconds, 16 if I get tire spin, or get a bad jump, or possibly if I have a friend in the car, I'm free."

Re: clutch engaging REALLY low...updated #62451 06/07/02 04:35 PM
Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 1,367 Jerzee S SVTour98 Member
SVTour98 Member S Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 1,367 Jerzee	FWIW, our clutches are supposed to engage at the top, not the bottom. Don't ask why, cause I don't know, lol. I've driven 4 SVT's and they all engage at the top...as I have read on CEG it is normal. Terry would be the man with the explanation. -Dan 1998.5 SVT "Black and Blue" #5292 See here for MOD list. "Washing your car to make it rain does not work."

Re: clutch engaging REALLY low...updated #62452 06/07/02 06:01 PM
Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 563 Southern Indiana D Dustyn Member
Dustyn Member D Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 563 Southern Indiana	[QUOTE]Originally posted by SVTour98: FWIW, our clutches are supposed to engage at the top, not the bottom. Don't ask why, cause I don't know, lol. I've driven 4 SVT's and they all engage at the top...as I have read on CEG it is normal. Terry would be the man with the explanation.[/QUOTE I can rest my foot on my clutch and it already starts to disengage. Now I know thats not right. There should should be some pedal before is starts disengageing. I don't know about are clutchs being at the top of the pedal. When I talked to terry he didn't think my clutch should be that high on the pedal either. I am just going by RAM. What do they know they just make clutchs. :rolleyes: Dustyn Red 1998 SVT E1 95 Mustang GT Yeah there both slow New ram clutch for sale Sho shop pullies and belt for sale 30 bucks

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