09-15-2008, 10:55 AM
So since the topic of Clutches came up this morning, lets talk about mine. I just got back from a weekend driving on the Tail of The Dragon and surrounding roads, put on about 1200 miles this weekend. The car did well, even though it seemed like it really didn't want to attend the event, with the heater control valve and alternator dying a few weeks earlier. I did have a couple issues this weekend though.
The most annoying was the clutch, there were numerous times where it was hard to get it into first gear from a stand still. If I didn't put the clutch all the way to the floor it would grind into gear. Other times it seems things were aligned right and it went right in. Also had a couple instances were third gear was hard to hit right. I probably need to bleed the clutch again, I have done it numerous times since I changed all the fluids, it works fine for a while then I know I need to redo it when it occasionally requires flicking the clutch pedal back up with my foot. I'm thinking the latest issues might require me to adjust the pedal some, or the DMF is complaining now. When I bought the car a new clutch was put into it, so it has about 10k miles on the clutch, the whole car is at about 89k.
And of course the car wouldn't allow me a trip without out at least one broken part. After I started the car up for the last leg of my trip home the oil pressure sending unit died. It pegs out now, even with the car not running. I'm starting to think it's upset about putting another Porsche in the garage. The 968 needs to go sit in the corner for while.
Other then that it did great, it used very little oil with the engine revving towards the red line for a lot of the roads. It could use some Design 1 Racing parts on the car, namely the upper and lower strut braces, one of these days if the car starts being nice. I was the leader for most of the route thru the Dragon and mountains, with 3 GT3's and a Turbo and other assorted 911's trailing behind me, so it required pushing the 968 pretty good to keep the others behind me happy. Those 911's owners always seem to be a little bewildered after these runs when they see a 968 pulling out ahead of them getting thru the corners faster then there new 100k+ 911's. Most of that is mainly the driver of the 911's and not the car, it seems the ones with the nicest cars like the GT3's are new Porsche owners.
It was also nice to be in a car with a 500+ mile range on the gas tank as most of the gas stations on the trip were either out of gas, or they were rationing the gas.
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The most annoying was the clutch, there were numerous times where it was hard to get it into first gear from a stand still. If I didn't put the clutch all the way to the floor it would grind into gear. Other times it seems things were aligned right and it went right in. Also had a couple instances were third gear was hard to hit right. I probably need to bleed the clutch again, I have done it numerous times since I changed all the fluids, it works fine for a while then I know I need to redo it when it occasionally requires flicking the clutch pedal back up with my foot. I'm thinking the latest issues might require me to adjust the pedal some, or the DMF is complaining now. When I bought the car a new clutch was put into it, so it has about 10k miles on the clutch, the whole car is at about 89k.
And of course the car wouldn't allow me a trip without out at least one broken part. After I started the car up for the last leg of my trip home the oil pressure sending unit died. It pegs out now, even with the car not running. I'm starting to think it's upset about putting another Porsche in the garage. The 968 needs to go sit in the corner for while.
Other then that it did great, it used very little oil with the engine revving towards the red line for a lot of the roads. It could use some Design 1 Racing parts on the car, namely the upper and lower strut braces, one of these days if the car starts being nice. I was the leader for most of the route thru the Dragon and mountains, with 3 GT3's and a Turbo and other assorted 911's trailing behind me, so it required pushing the 968 pretty good to keep the others behind me happy. Those 911's owners always seem to be a little bewildered after these runs when they see a 968 pulling out ahead of them getting thru the corners faster then there new 100k+ 911's. Most of that is mainly the driver of the 911's and not the car, it seems the ones with the nicest cars like the GT3's are new Porsche owners.
It was also nice to be in a car with a 500+ mile range on the gas tank as most of the gas stations on the trip were either out of gas, or they were rationing the gas.
Current:
2016 Cayman S
Former:
94 968 Cab 6 Spd. Black/Cashmere D1R SC
86.5 928 Garnet Red Metallic
