New clutch problems, maybe oil on disc?

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brisknfade
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My clutch died recently, and i replaced it with an oem clutch kit. Well after it was all said and done i took it for a drive, i noticed that the clutch would seem to slip under maybe half throttle, then it would suddenly catch if i let it loose to about quarter throttle and accelarate suddenly throwing me into the seat. It feels almost like some sort of ghetto VTEC (Iv'e never ridden in a car with vtec, but ive heard its a sudden burst of power at a certain rpm and it feels like that, a sudden burst of power) I thought it was just that the clutch was new and needed to be broken in.

So about 500 miles later of rather easy driving, it still does the same thing, it would accelerate normally if i only have it at about quarter throttle, if i give it more then that it seems like it loses alot of power, but the car still accelerates, just slower then it would under quarter throttle. This is very annoying especially trying to get on the highway. Im always trying to hit that sweet spot while accelerating.

Full throttle... forget about it. From first gear on full throttle to 5500 RPM it feels tremoundously sluggish. So i ask, could this be from oil on the clutch disc? And if it is, is there any way of getting rid of it without having to drop the transmission again? I was also told it might be the TPS sensor. Iv'e hooked up an auto scanner to it and read the voltage from the sensor and see nothing out of the ordinary, starts from about .4 at closed throttle and gradually goes to 4.0 at full throttle with no jumps in voltage.

What else would it be? Any help would be appreciated.


pregmantis
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Joined: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:11 am

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might possibly be the clutch linkage(behind pedal) or you might need to modify the slave rod(shorten/lennthen


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