stewarts359

Clutch was acting completely normal, until I u-turned and accelerated quickly and the clutch pedal stuck at high RPM. When I got home, there was definitely clutch smell and jumpiness in the pedals when I try drive. Not looking good.

5.M0NSTER

Yikes. How many miles on the clutch?

stewarts359

11,000

stewarts359

I attempted to drive it. I let it sit over night. It is not doing what it did last night. Everything feels normal besides a slight chatter at the catch point from 1st to 2nd only

tom281

It will get back to normal you probably just hazed it.

ssjbuu

It will go back to normal, until you do this again at higher RPM's. I've had basically the same issue, and it looks like a bunch of other people are having this issue on the forum. I've been researching and it seems to be an issue with the factory clutch line being plastic, and the fittings are too small. Check out this video from JHR, I think he does a decent job explaining the issue:


I had the issue and now I have a grinding noise while shifting into 5th gear, so I am going to replace the clutch line with this as soon as I can get Ford to fix my transmission.

stewarts359

I think I'll try replacing with a stainless steel line first, but I may also consider removing this helper spring.

ssjbuu

That seems to be another mod that people are doing to help to better feel where the pick-up point is and improve the over-all feel of the clutch. I think you're still going to want to upgrade your clutch line, too.

Do you remember if the problem happened when you were trying to shift up from 2nd into 3rd gear? That seems to be where I have the issue with mine, high RPM's trying to shift up from 2nd into 3rd gear.

stewarts359

It happened mainly from 1st to 2nd but maybe like once from 2nd to 3rd. The clutch feel seems to be back to complete normal but like you said I ordered the Mcleod line from American Muscle