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Rekin Grand Master

Rekin

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Hey,

Recently on cold mornings when i first drive the car. When i move off in First gear, the car starts to wobble/shake during the clutch pedal release. Once im off the clutch the car is fine. When i change through gears its fine. If i come to a stop at lights again and take off in first, the car again starts to wobble/shake as i slip the clutch to take off.

Once ive driven for 5 minutes etc the problem never occurs and never happens during the day. Only happens when I first drive the car in the morning.

It also happens when reversing from driveway slowly, the car begins to wobble/shake and need to get off the clutch to stop it.

This problem used to happen with my old standard clutch and replaced it with exedy h/d clutch. Now, after driving with the clutch for the past 1yr the problem is slowly coming back...

Im not sure if its clutch related, flywheel related etc

Anyone know what the problem is? Is it oil or something dripping on clutch overnight causing it to slip and cause the weird side to side wobble the car has in the morning?

Any help would be great :)

Thanks

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White GTS-T

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I had a similar problem, but I just put it down to having a 5 puk and a 2-way. But on the weekend I changed my clutch fluid, and it has made a significant difference. Before i changed the fluid the clutch seemed to be either 'in' or 'out', but now the pedal feel is a lot more gradual and has made taking off a lot smoother. I'd be giving this a try first and see if it helps.

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Birds Grand Master

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Silly question perhaps, but are you people giving your engines enough RPM in the morning? Cold clutches + cold engines at low RPM typically result in this. Always a good idea to slip the clutch with plenty of RPM on a cold morning to get some friction happening.

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Silly question perhaps, but are you people giving your engines enough RPM in the morning? Cold clutches + cold engines at low RPM typically result in this. Always a good idea to slip the clutch with plenty of RPM on a cold morning to get some friction happening.

+1 ....in my case, every morning, leave the car warmed up say at least 5 mins. and rev it up a bit and bang probs solve...my car always shakes if i dont warm it up for a bit early in the morning ..so maybe it works for me...

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SDEWY5

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Have had this problem twice and its only raised its head when the clutch has copped a thrashing, overheats and then it struggles to grab for up to a week after its been thrashed, both on different exedy heavy duties, one 6 puck and one 5 puck. Throw it out and get something better i reckon. Putting a HKS twin plate in mine now.

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