[DML] Re: And for my next trick.....

["ryanpwright" <yahoo1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> That one's easy - wait for one of them to fail, then yank the trans. 
> A bad pilot or TO bearing will give you tons of notice (i.e. noise) 
> before it fails. 
> 
> Honestly - I've never seen one of these go bad before the car needed 
> a clutch anyway (at least on a DeLorean - don't get me started on old 
> Fords). 

Mine did. ~50k miles on the original clutch. TO bearing started making
noise one day. Clutch was still good but both cylinders were leaky and
I still had the plastic line. It shifted fine under about 4k rpm,
anything higher between 1st and 2nd and I got a little grinding due to
incomplete clutch release I assume. Ignoring the TO bearing, I could
have replaced the cylinders & line and gone another 6-12 months of
daily driving on that clutch. But then, I don't abuse the car and
neither did the original owner.

Anyway, I replaced it all last month. It's nice to have such a big job
out of the way.

-Ryan








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