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  • Member For: 17y 2m 4d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Brisbane

Story time:

Had an issue with the clutch in my BF ute yesterday. It's a Mal Wood Option 3, the car is stock and the clutch has been in for about 20,000km's.

In traffic on quite a steep hill I had to do about 3 hillstarts in a row with the hand brake. On the fourth start to leave the hill the clutch slipped (in 1st obviously), pushed the clutch in, tried again and it slipped and stalled before I could catch it. Restarted and gave it another go and it grabbed with no issues and took off, although there was a smell of burnt clutch.

Drove the car home without issue, took it out again last night and tried a few hillstarts and it didn't slip again although there was a very faint whirring type noise while releasing the clutch but that only happened once.

I have spoken to the guys at Mal Wood's who were very helpful but without pulling it apart I guess it is kind of hard to pinpoint exactly what's wrong. I will be heading out there to get it sorted if it continues but before I do has anyone else had this issue or one similar? Up for a new clutch?

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  • Member For: 17y 1m 22d
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Drive it normally for a few days and see if it comes good again. After they slip they loose some ability, but at stock power probably not an issue yet.

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  • Member For: 14y 4m 15d
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  • Location: 2 Fuchsia Court, Narre Warren. 3805

stop bother them... they are busy making my new clutch :stirthepot:

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  • Member For: 17y 2m 4d
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  • Location: Brisbane

Thanks Henz. It's going to get tuned soon to about 300rwkw, hopefully it holds really don't want to replace it again.

Maybe if it does die staino I can get them to put your new one in, you might just have to wait a little longer... :sungum:

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