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What the hell? I've been using the fidanza for about 10 months and the clutch for about 16. Any idea what could have caused this? I was careful to clean out the bell housing last time, and I carefully cleaned all friction surfaces with brake cleaner...
The throughout bearing which went out a few days ago, it just started making a God-aweful noise, and coming to a stop the car stalled. I then had trouble getting it into gear, and getting the car to start - it acted like there was a lot of resistance in the drive train keeping the motor from turning over. After leaving the car overnight, I came back the next day and got it to start and drove a half mile to my house (it went into gear easily in the morning when the motor wasn't running) When I was backing the car up/positioning it to work on it, the clutch would tend to want to grab even when I had the petal all the way in. I'm wondering if any of this could have been what gouged the flywheel - is it possible that a screwed up throughout bearing causing resistance could have screwed up the allignment of something in the drive train bad enough to do this? I didn't think I abused the clutch that badly! Anyways thanks for the opinions.
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