whitedog
Veteran Member
This car had a 5 speed swap something like 50,000 miles ago and apparently they did it on the CHEAP. Im not even sure they put in a new disc and PP. My guy just bought the car so I did the TB and it had a horrible shudder when letting out the clutch. We knew we had to do a clutch soon but we just did the TB in his Golf and Acura so he was going to wait a bit.
Then I get the call at 7:00 at night that we have to do it now. It looks like the pocket for the pivot ball was barely hanging on and it finally gave up the ghost as he was pulling into his driveway.
Oh yeah, all of the bolts on the CV axle on one side came out by hand. I could go on with the list of other abuses, but I won't.
Remember that the pivot ball has a plastic type cap on it and if it's worn, it should be replaced. I ordered the parts before hand even though he said that we wouldn't need them.
Like a thermostat with a timing belt, I'm putting pivot ball and lever on my replacement list for clutches.