clutch cost

[Gelbster]

Cali Tom,
This thread drifted to include mention of gear selection problems. One of those problems - 2nd gear pop-out can be addressed quite inexpensively if you act early/preemptively. Just search for 2nd gear detent.

[Drphil]

I know im brining up a 2 year old thread, but I was doing search on this issue and thought I'd post regarding my current state of affairs with this little mistress

Bought the car a year ago, only put 2500 miles on her since getting her home, had noticed there was a different feel here on the clutch than my 2000 S had, even at 90k miles that clutch was solid -
I bought this car from a older gentleman, he only put 36k miles on it in 20 years( its a 1997) finally decided it might have a slave cylinder issue took it in to independent service (George the head mechanic was with Porsche for 45 years!) - so for sure its the disc and pressure plate just worn since the previous owner must have been really hard on it slipping it a lot - in my 35 years of driving , owner of 10 standard transmission cars most sports cars I have never burnt out a clutch , ever! I have had cars go well over 150k miles on original clutch SO you never know about the original owner. -
Now my quote for the job with new RMS is $1400 with out the flywheel - if we do that oem its $750 more (no extra labor cost) and I am looking at doing the IMS while there since its only $700 or so more while there - probably doing the Cylindrical bearing like the Vertex - George says hes done over a hundred of those with none of them coming back or failing - I know the LN dual row has a good rating too etc but they still only warranty it and recommend replacement before 50k miles - will see but will all the chatter on forums all over the place you have to go with what the experts recommend - either LN or the Cylinder type both have almost a zero failure-

wonder if anyone here has experience with the Vertex type or (don't know brand)
either way with out flywheel im into it for $2100 including IMS, RMS etc, OR just under $3000 if we have to do the flywheel , but hard not to do the ims even with a early dual row that hardly ever failed- hate to take the chance. ,

Phil

[husker boxster]

Since you brought up an old thread, I've learned how to heel-toe and have been doing it for the last 2 DE seasons.

[jb92563]

For the DIY mechanics you could do all the work for just the price of parts which would be more like $2K from internet sources and might take 2 days of your time, which would be worth $3k of savings.

Is your time worth $1500 a day, ~200/hr?

You could take a nice Porsche engine building course with those savings

When a clutch starts to go you will know it. It feels funky and the revs go up with no immediate acceleration if you punch the gas (Slipping clutch)

Symptoms started occurring rather suddenly over one week of daily driving, as I think the throw out bearing was binding occasionally as well due to wear (Funky clutch engagement).

I think between myself and the former owners the previous clutch lasted about 35K miles.

I did the work myself, first time ever doing a clutch job, and it took about 6 hours, though I was working really slow. Next time will likely be a 2-3 hour job, now that I have that stupid security bit for the 1 transmission bolt and know how and where everything attaches.