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Clutch vibration

04-28-2002, 12:51 PM

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JLewis

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Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: CT Posts: 81

Clutch vibration

I recently purchased a really nice 98 12 valve extra cab 4x4 5-speed with 55,000 miles. So far I love it, for now I've added a straight pipe, open K&N and a JRE stage 4 fuel plate slid all the way foreward with the AFC housing all the way foreward. Now of course my stock clutch slips like crazy in fourth and fifth gear if I give it full fuel under 2000 RPM's, I expected that. But I'm getting a bad vibration if I floor it around 1500 RPM's in fourth and fifth. It seems to be comming from the clutch area but is hard to tell. At first I thought it was the exhaust hitting the cab somewhere because I can feel it in the floor but I have ruled that out. My question is could the clutch be vibrating that bad? Maybe a broken spring or a broken piece of the clutch disk? The vibration starts at the point where the clutch just starts to slip and goes away as rpm's increase. I plan on getting a south bend clutch soon and hope this is all it is and not a tranny problem. Someone please tell me this is just the clutch dyeing. Thanks!

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