Rogue Engineering
Stainless Steel Clutch Pivot Pin
It's Always the Little Things
One day at Rogue Engineering, a local customer came with his E46
M3 (less than 40k miles). He wanted us to look at a "noisy
clutch" issue he was having. When pressing down on the clutch
pedal, you could feel a vibration and chattering sound. With such
little mileage, it would be tough to diagnose that the clutch was worn
out, but it sounded more like there was a flywheel problem. Unfortunately,
with most things clutch related, you don't really know until the entire
transmission is taken down.
It turns out that the
culprit to the clutch issue was a BROKEN clutch pivot pin. The
entire head had completely broken off. When this happens, the
clutch fork is not securely positioned when the clutch slave cylinder
pushes on the opposite end. That's right. A $1.50 part
caused the grief of over $1000 (while the transmission was down, the
clutch was replaced with a RE
PCS system).
To prevent this from
every happening to a RE customer again, we now offer a stainless steel
clutch pivot pin (included with every RE
PCS) This may be overkill to replacing a $1.50 part with a
CNC'd stainless version, but we'd rather not drop the transmission to
discover such a small part caused the failure of the clutch system.
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