Bank Holiday Project

[S3Steve]

I thought i'd make use of the bank holiday and change my clutch and flywheel. All was going well right up to the point when i realised GSF had given me the wrong flywheel, my old ones got 6 bolt holes and the one theyve sold me has 10. Its a good job ive got this week off as im gonna have to go back to GSF tommorow and try and get the right one, and until i do my cars in bits.

 

[Bellic]

is that blood on the floor

 

[Maz]

Good luck pal, hope all goes well. What clutch did you get?

 

[abdus]

any more pics? any possibilty of a guide mate? That would be very helpful

is that blood on the floor

lol

 

[S3Steve]

is that blood on the floor

No mate the garage floor used to be painted red, but it really needs redoing as its badly chipped. Although having said that it has made me bleed on a couple of occasions.

 

[S3Steve]

Good luck pal, hope all goes well. What clutch did you get?

In the end i decided to stick with a standard one, the problem i have is the dual mass flywheel. My cars been remapped for most my four years of ownership including quite a few trips to santa pod and its never been a problem so decided to save myself the £400 difference in price between an LUK (standard) and the sachs (uprated one). After taking it off today there's load of life left in the original clutch and no real sign of overheating. The original flywheel however has loads of play in it, and was obviously causing my fault.

 

[S3Steve]

any more pics? any possibilty of a guide mate? That would be very helpful





lol

I'll see what i can do mate, i always get my head down when doing things like this and then think afterwards i should have taken pics throughout.

 

[S3-Oski]

wow good luck to ya!,

Wish i had the know how, and confidence to do things like that, looks like you know what yo are doing!

could i ask? you said that you had a play with the flywheel causing your fault, what was the fault? symtoms etc just interested cheers Oski

 

[S3Steve]

wow good luck to ya!,

Wish i had the know how, and confidence to do things like that, looks like you know what yo are doing!

could i ask? you said that you had a play with the flywheel causing your fault, what was the fault? symtoms etc just interested cheers Oski

In fifth and sixth gears if you floored it from about 3k the revs would jump 300 to 500rpm (like clutch slip) before the car would catch up. More info on fault on Wak's site

http://www.wak-tt.com/mods/warranty/6dmflywheel/Dualmassflywheel.htm

 

[S3-Oski]

In fifth and sixth gears if you floored it from about 3k the revs would jump 300 to 500rpm (like clutch slip) before the car would catch up. More info on fault on Wak's site

http://www.wak-tt.com/mods/warranty/6dmflywheel/Dualmassflywheel.htm

AH ok Thanks for the reply and linky, cheers Oski

 

[voorhees]

Steve,how come you didn't know how many studs yet had the knowledge to attempt replacing it?

 

[S3Steve]

Steve,how come you didn't know how many studs yet had the knowledge to attempt replacing it?

Its a few years since i did one on a mates S3, and it wasnt something i checked, i checked it was the right 240mm diameter but then assumed it was correct, GSF checked against my chassis number so i assumed wrongly as it turns out it would be correct. it was only when i went to put it on that i realised the hole number/spacing was incorrect.

 

[MintyS3]

How long it take to get off?

 

[S3Steve]

How long it take to get off?

Probably about five to six hours mate, but ive not been rushing just taking my time and drinking plenty of coffee. I reckon its gonna take about three hours to put back together as they always go back easier than they come off. Not really fussed how long it takes to be honest ive got the week off work, its better than paying a garage £4-500 to do the job.

Been back to GSF this morning, turns out it was the wrong flywheel in the box. They had given me the right part no but it had been packaged wrong(so wrong flywheel in right box), what a pain. Picked up new droplinks and track rod ends while there so should get this finished this afternoon.