12-07-2005, 06:42 PM | #11 |
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I hear about them, but never have driven one in person.
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12-07-2005, 07:54 PM | #13 |
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I had my stock one do that in my car, got so hot that it "blued" the steel and the bearing retainer. Lots of people make simple mistake of riding with a foot resting on the clutch, you may not think that just the little bit of weight from your foot touching the pedal would cause movement but it does. I think there is more wrong with that clutch as well. UVBNHAD had his TB go out on his 04 and he does not have the high of milage on his, I even think there was a TSB from Ford about it.
I have a SPEC and in the last year have been thru 2 TB only because when I installed the 331 I put in a new one, neither made noise or looked in bad shape.
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12-07-2005, 08:26 PM | #15 |
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Again; I have never personally witnessed a noisy bearing except for a stocker with high-miles.
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I haven't seen or even been a part of these "1500 other Spec clutch threads" so lay off the dead horse.
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I'm done now.
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My concern was the fact that the Ford or I'm sorry the bearing "made" for Ford is metal. And the tob's I've seen for Spec are the plastic ones Matt talked about...err..well, let me quote what he said so I don't get flamed for mis-qouting him..."We also have the composite case-bearing (commonly called the "plastic" one)". That was the difference between the two that I had noticed and wondered how they were the same bearings with the different construction. I'm done now too. C-Ya
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Good grief.
Brad have you had a noisy bearing? Have you driven one noisy? Has anyone here had the problem? Reason I ask is that I think the "multiple" complaints of noisy TOB's stem from a select few...it gets blown out of proportion like most everything on the intraweb. I know you aren't dogging me. Neither is Joker. I am not SPEC Clutch. But I just am trying to get an idea of what the culprit is like anyone else would. Thanks for the input. The dead horse has been sent to Elmer's Glue.
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I'm the bad guy because I was the THIRD person to say something about the tob's in this very thread. I'm growing tired of the attitude i get when I post. But, maybe that's the idea.
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