Hey y'all,
I have a quick question. I had a dealership do my timing belt and clutch/flywheel in one shot. They wound up having to replace the clutch slave 3 times because of leaks. They eventually ordered and installed a whole new clutch kit because they thought something might be wrong with the first clutch kit? So, they went thru 1 clutch kit initially, then 2 slaves, then installed a whole new clutch kit with slave.
Side story but they wound up taking 8 days to do a 14 hour job, lol. They were pretty horrible to deal with and failed to update me many times about my car, so I think the dealership is pretty shady and is doing shady shit here. They also have a very bad reputation for stuff like this, so..yeah. My bad going there.
When i got in the car to drive it away, the clutch feels...bad? 90% or more of the pedal is soft. When I say soft I mean empty, like there isn't much pressure or the clutch springs are very soft. the only usable portion of the throw is maybe a half inch or so near the top. This clutch feels significantly different. It works, to be clear, it just doesn't engage until the very top and it's very fast with little entry/exit. It just grabs. I've driven a lot of manuals, big and smalls, and this feels very, very weak. The clutch itself does grip well and I can get solid tire chirp.
All parts previously and what are on there now are OEM. Flywheel, clutch, slave, were OEM and should be OEM. So they should feel similar.
I had another mechanic drive it and his thought was "It works, but it feels like a honda fit clutch, or another economy car. Not what I'd expect on an ST." Did they install the wrong clutch? Can they even do that? Like is it possible they installed a non-st fiesta clutch on it?
What do you all think happened here? I've never been in the clutch/flywheel of these cars so I'm not familiar enough here. I'm having another mechanic do a work check on it next week. Could they maybe not have broken it in very well? I don't think break in would change pedal pressure. It looks like these slaves are crap. Is it possible they killed 3 slaves or is this just some weird fiesta st issue? The whole thing seems real weird to me.
I have a quick question. I had a dealership do my timing belt and clutch/flywheel in one shot. They wound up having to replace the clutch slave 3 times because of leaks. They eventually ordered and installed a whole new clutch kit because they thought something might be wrong with the first clutch kit? So, they went thru 1 clutch kit initially, then 2 slaves, then installed a whole new clutch kit with slave.
Side story but they wound up taking 8 days to do a 14 hour job, lol. They were pretty horrible to deal with and failed to update me many times about my car, so I think the dealership is pretty shady and is doing shady shit here. They also have a very bad reputation for stuff like this, so..yeah. My bad going there.
When i got in the car to drive it away, the clutch feels...bad? 90% or more of the pedal is soft. When I say soft I mean empty, like there isn't much pressure or the clutch springs are very soft. the only usable portion of the throw is maybe a half inch or so near the top. This clutch feels significantly different. It works, to be clear, it just doesn't engage until the very top and it's very fast with little entry/exit. It just grabs. I've driven a lot of manuals, big and smalls, and this feels very, very weak. The clutch itself does grip well and I can get solid tire chirp.
All parts previously and what are on there now are OEM. Flywheel, clutch, slave, were OEM and should be OEM. So they should feel similar.
I had another mechanic drive it and his thought was "It works, but it feels like a honda fit clutch, or another economy car. Not what I'd expect on an ST." Did they install the wrong clutch? Can they even do that? Like is it possible they installed a non-st fiesta clutch on it?
What do you all think happened here? I've never been in the clutch/flywheel of these cars so I'm not familiar enough here. I'm having another mechanic do a work check on it next week. Could they maybe not have broken it in very well? I don't think break in would change pedal pressure. It looks like these slaves are crap. Is it possible they killed 3 slaves or is this just some weird fiesta st issue? The whole thing seems real weird to me.
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