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clutch
Jake that's great! many days I regret selling that car, but glad it has a good home!
loved the sound system too and have now upgraded my current car with the rear speaker system (bose)!. next will be coil overs , I will continue to do some S upgrades to this car to improve balance and performance, but this was and necessity to take care of and ended up being way more than I wanted or expected to do on a 39k mile car! - my mechanic is convinced its the low mileage cars that didn't get driven and sat too much that have more failures -
I picked up the car last night and its night and day! a good clutch is like butter, soft, smooth , but grabs and holds! amazing the difference, - should not have to ever do another clutch, you will eventually and what I learned from this is that if you wait too long and don't realize the pressure plate and disc is wearing out, you will then wear out your flywheel- the p.o. of this car burnt up this flywheel something fierce!! and that's a $700-800$ part - BTW my main seal wasnot leaking, it was coming from the IMS - and once out you can feel the bearning wear when rotating it so it was just a matter of time - a ticking time bomb- we did the LN dual row hybrid ceramic with 75k mile warranty, I think the bearing was $696, and the labor was 2 hours, so $200 from this shop for that as an add on for the original $1400 for clutch labor pressure plate and disc. in and out with fly wheel and the hydraulic upgrade its $3600.
just a word of warning to those who think they may not need an IMS because the oil looks ok !!! if you are doing a clutch do the IMS- if you do it yourself you can do this for under a grand - why take the chance???
cheap insurance for the next 75k miles-
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