popped springs on clutch disc
 

so my clutch somehow popped the springs outa the disc. any idea on how this happened? im at a dead end with how it happened. my trans did have a bad bearing on the input shaft and a little bit if fkuid was leaking in the bellhousing. so if that helps, i really have no idea.

this is pics from my competion clutch stage 3

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wth, when did this happen?

we found it yesterday when the trans was being swapped over.
luckily, warrenty covered it and a replacement is on its way.

****ty clutch, or to muc power.....i had that happen to me with a few exedy clutches.

what did it sound like...i think im experiencing this myself

yeah it has to be a bad unit. since there mass produced, theres bound to be a few bad apples out there. but with the power im making, i highly doubt power was to blame.

honestly im not 100% sure. i do know that my old trans that was on the car had a bad input shaft bearing and that was making lots of noise. there was a strange "tink" like noise that i thought was chatter.

It's most likely not a bad unit. Sprung clutches are notorious for doing this unfortunately. It's a well versed topic in the DSM community, and the manufactuerer ACT is very well-known for this happening with their sprung units also.

so seems ACT clutches pop more than others?
FYI, i had competition clutch, not ACT.

FYI ACT & exedy = the same thing iirc

yeah idk. but either way, the company help up to there 90 day no questions ask warrenty. and a new kit is on the way.

Bingo.

Did you get another sprung unit? I hope you went full-face this time, or at least un-sprung...

nah the warrenty replaced that unit. but i look at it this way, i saved 400 bucks. so this time around everything should be good. a healty trans and new clutch so i should be good.

Had that happen twice on an exedy stage 2 in a civic. The springs somehow got broken into fragments and got jammed in the PP and it felt like I lost the clutch all together.

^^^ thats what it felt like in my car, i had to fight with the shifter to get it in gear, and somtimes it didnt even wanna go in gear.

samething happend to me, with my Prelude. No symptoms, until all the sudden i coudlnt shift. We took it out, two springs were missing.

Simple. Disc was either defective in the first place or you were beating on it, ie. dropping clutch too quickly, burnouts and launches, etc...

Its not rocket science.

I drove it drove it, I wasn't easy on mine but didn't beat the **** out of it either.

Mine was old.

His sounds defective. I looks like its still in pretty good shape.

In my NA eclipse one of the springs came off the oem clutch and ended up where the flywheel bolts are. The bolt heads were pretty mangled.

yeah thats where mine ended up, but the heads were fine. sucks im still waiting on replacement parts