Re: 91 Spider Transmission BROKE?

[ltooz@xxxxxxxxxxxx (LLe_2002)]

Hello all,
 Come on,with the time spent and scratches on both hands and arms from disassembling and assembling trannie, who's in the right mind would use anything but Brand New parts from Berkley Alfa part (Unless he sold me rebuilt part)... hahahaha.... It was made in germany too, brand name SACH? I'm hoping that it is a defective disc. If the U-joints are flaky sometimes, would they do this? I can twist the drive shaft by hands with ujoints very smoothly. I don't know how old they are though. I should just replace them this time when the shaft is already out.
 By the way, I'm not a racer, only rev up to 5000-5500 max RPM once in a while. I do take care of this car, it's been very reliable and fun until now. Great gas mileage, great power, smooth, low maintenant,never failed to start, just plain a great car.
 What should I replace this time since everything is out. New pressure plate, throw out bearing, transmission mount, fork, spring.... what else can I replace now?

Thanks,

Louis Le 
TJCallahan@domain.elided wrote:

>In a message dated 4/21/03 4:54:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Louis Le writes:
>
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>>  What can cause this to happen? Defective clutch disc? 
><snip>
>
>Hoo boy, do those photos look familiar! Certainly a defective clutch disc can 
>cause this to happen. Was this a new disc or rebuilt? If it was rebuilt, it 
>could have been fatigued from previous use. (By someone on the AD, perhaps?) 
>:-)
>
>"Abuse" in the form of sharp changes in tire/clutch speed can do it, too. By 
>'sharp' I mean the type of sudden changes brought on by, for example, driving 
>on an icy surface with the tires spinning and suddenly hitting a dry patch. 
>The tires virtually stop as they grab traction, putting incredible pressure 
>on the clutch disc springs and those thin pieces of metal you broke in your 
>clutch disc. I did this on my Jetta once fooling around in the snow ... that 
>was a *cold* clutch change, let me tell you. :-)
>
>Being as you're in Fremont, CA I don't suppose you have very much of that 
>white fluffy stuff to drive in these days, but similar stresses could have 
>caused the break. 
>
>Tom
>Seattle
>6310123 (safe from broken clutches for now)
>7711615 (almost ready to start reassembly ... where did I put that 
>instruction sheet?)
>

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