So I am having issues shifting my 4 speed. I have driven standards for long enough to know how to ease it into gear, but my bird is the most touchy car I have ever driven. Unless I give it the perfect clutch release, and I mean perfect, it bucks on me (starting from a stop). Is there a chance this amplified bucking can be from a problem with the clutch area? Could it be out of alignment, or warped somehow? Also I noticed that if I look under my car, I can see the flywheel and clutch. It looks like there is a plate missing to cover the bottom of the clutch housing. Am I crazy? Any thoughts would be helpful.
you do need a cover for it, you might not have enough clutch for it do disengauge properly. it should have about one inch of play in the arm. or the clutch hub is worn out.
The background on the clutch is...unknown. I got the car last August and have had this issue with it since then. I tried to find a cover on all sorts of sites and couldn't. Anyone have one or know where I can get one?
So it could be a number or things it seems. Is my best bet to spray it down with something and see if that helps...If not then I would know that something likely needs to be replaced....thoughts? Trying to figure out a way to logically troubleshoot the 'fix it' options before moving to the 'replacing parts' phase.
Sounds like a bad clutch to me. I went through alot of rebuilt clutches over the years. All of them seemed to chatter at one point or another. Some so bad that I had to replace the ball pivot about once a year. Finally decide to buy all new and it was the fix. If I slip it too much it will chatter now and then for the next couple of releases but then it goes away.
