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hey i was at the drags wit my mates yesterday wen i nptice my clutch was stuck, lik all the way in!

it didnt come out!...lol

i dropped it from 3 - 3.5grand..all good..went to put it in second and notice my clutch was in still..

u could smell the clutch after..lol..real bad!

but i can drive fine..and doesnt engage randomly..or anything..nothin un-usual..

anyone ever had this problem before??

i believe i still have the stock clutch, and i got 243rwhp..woops!..lol..so it cant take the power or is it somethin else?

clutch master/slave cyl?

any ideas ??plus after i drive for a while..like good driving..i still smell lik a burning clutch smell..

im gona get a new clutch, but i just wana make sure nothin else could b going wrong..

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  • 2 weeks later...

found out wat was wrong..

i had one of my rear rims changed to a stockie..

anyways..

a tech. from work told me having different size wheels on a rear wheel drive car,

causes the diff to slip all the time!!

so it was my diff that was burning, and thats wat i could smell!!

thank god i get my rim back 2mrw..

but i also got told the the circumference of the wheel may not cause it slip all the time..

so if it wat nearly the same as the other size rim and tyre together, than it should be ok..

well thats wat another tech believes..

but most techs said that having different size wheels causes the clutch packs inside the diff just

to get over-heated and worn..

so yeah

found my problem..

Edited by bumble_bee

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