has anyone had issues with the stock slave not giving enough pressure to clamp the pressure plate to the flywheel. My stage one pp grabbed like a ************, and the brand new stage three grabs like is has 300,000 miles on it.

 

You don't know how a clutch works do you?

The slave cylinder unloads the clutch, the pressure plate is internally sprung to put pressure on the clutch.

Also stage 1 and stage 3 don't mean anything to us. Talk brands and models.

 

I have

maxx extreme pressure plate
6 puck sprung clutch disc
prolite exact flywheel

btw all act **** if you are not good with brands

from my understanding, when the clutch peddle is depressed, the slave cylinder hydraulically pushes a rod towards the rear of the car (this rod is located on top of the bellhousing) the top of the bell housing has a fork sticking through the top where it meet this rod, the fork then pushes the throughout barring into the pressure plate which releases engine pressure on the clutch, this allows the driver to shift. AM I WRONG HERE?

reading what I just wrote, it sounds like my pressure plate is not compatible with the rest of my stuff. Thus causing mine set up to slip at 2psi.

I need to call them in the am and talk to a tech. They better right the situation, that pp was $404 shiped to my house.

Did act ship me the wrong pp and in some miracle, the son of a bitch bolts up to my flywheel ?? What am I overlooking Turbo II Rotor ?? You seem like you know a lot about this kind of stuff, you could either be a smart *** and act superior...or share your knowledge. Personally I would share knowledge, I drive an rx7 not a corvette, I don't feel like I have the longest swinging dick on the block and I sure as hell don't pose like i do either.

 

I have pulled the engine 3 times and re set the clutch three times in the last month, this frustration might be showing a little when I get people telling me I don't know ****, for ***** sake that is why I ask questions. Kinda sucks doing all that when your dd has the engine pulled out every week

 

rebleed it or ur clutch master cylinder might be gone , make sure ur throwout bearing went on the right way . like the fork it selft too

 

Got to understand, you're asking a question over the net and people don't know anything about the situation or your experience, so they respond accordingly.

It's not that people are saying you don't know jack, but in all my years never heard of the following:

Different terminology would have been helpful, similar to your second example. Having said that, once the clutch is released, the slave is out of the equation, but if there is no free play in the pedal, the throw out bearing would be riding on the PP and not allowing it to clamp properly. Similar to driving the car with your clutch pedal depressed an inch or so. Make certain there is free play at the fork, indicating the throw out bearing is releasing the PP fully. If it has free play, need to look for another problem.

 

ACT xtreme pressure plate is well known to work poorly on the FC. It often breaks pivot *****. There is absolutely no need for the xtreme pressure plate. The heavy duty pressure plate + sprung 6 puck is rated at something like 430 crank torque. That's high 300's torque to the wheels, so you better have a 500 horsepower car to need it. Ditch the pressure plate.

Even the performance street disc plus heavy duty pressure plate is rated at 340 crank torque or so, so like 300 wheel torque. You will need power in the high 300's to make that kind of torque.