My 4 puck clutch and Group N pressure plare are at Mardi Gras for inspection and cleaning after they got covered in oil. Got a call today from them and it's good and bad news. Good news: The pressure plate is cleaned up and checked - all is fine Bad news The 4 puck clutch is wasted. The internals in the centre have fallen to pieces. On further speaking to them they agree it was broken before i fitted it, and it was this broken piece that was causing the ver loud rattle i had when i installed it. Good news: I should be getting a brand new one after a warrenty claim has gone through Bad news: I will be cutting it MIGHTY close to the Donington day on the 27th!
So for once a transmission fault IS'NT your fault? You better be at Donny on the 27th, all this talk of this lower ratio'd 'box...
Will be talking to them again on Monday, gonna beg them to sort things as soon as possible. GVK - steal the camber and tracking guages from work for Donny - i may need them!
Camber gauge will fit in the car, but there's no way I'm being seen using those antique fecking tracking sticks in public [:^(] You'd be better off with a peice of string!
Are you 100% it was broken? Reason I ask is that I gave Helix a paddle to refurb not so long ago. I thought there was litte wrong with it, but it was all to do with getting parts spick and span for the Golf project. Terry @ Helix seemed fine with it. Then a couple of weeks passed by, heard nothing, so I rang him. Told me the paddle was knackered and so forth and I was thinking hmmm . So I said 'could I have it back' then, but he had already put it in the skip... Bearing in mind that his paddle refurb prices are beer money, I suspect he makes nothing out of it Best to sell a new paddle to the punters?? Don't read this wrongly - his customer service had been spot on up till then.
If it makes you feel better they still sell them new, still the dogs good that there sorting it, they should have that in stock?? or they going to root through that skip!! Edited by: Crispy 8V
They have told me and agreed with me it was damaged before installation - so hopefully will have no problem.
surely he means the old school tracking guages you use on ground level. Ones where you stick em together to set em up, put em on rim edge and look down the telescope bit!
Nah he means those white sticks that Stevie wonder use'swhen he's going for a walk....same ones I use to build boxes for Tubs
You mean Dunlop gauges that have been in use for decades and are as accurate as any computer controlled system?
They are as accurate as the bloke using them.... and i would rather have GVK set my car up on them than any of the local motorsport specialists, Aswesome GTI or anywhere else i can think of, with any fancy electronic gizmos!
indeed.... but didn't realise it was a comparision Used em for years, but thats more to do with not affording computer ones Guess they win points on portablity too. don't think dunlop were the only ones to make em tho? Edited by: Seraph
