What Did You Do To Your 2ND GEN RAM Today?
Champion
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Well the clutch saga continues. New Sachs hydraulics are now extremely crunchy and gritty feeling when operating the pedal. But only when warmed up. ???
So I ordered a replacement from rockauto and will return this one. It sounds like its coming directly from the master cylinder where the pushrod enters it. I have greased everything I can see with lithium and there was no change. It was butter smooth when installed but got worse over a week. Now every morning it is perfect until I get a couple miles down the road and it's super gritty, grainy, crunchy and catchy. Ugh.
No symptoms from clutch itself so I'm trying another kit in hopes it will fix it.
So I ordered a replacement from rockauto and will return this one. It sounds like its coming directly from the master cylinder where the pushrod enters it. I have greased everything I can see with lithium and there was no change. It was butter smooth when installed but got worse over a week. Now every morning it is perfect until I get a couple miles down the road and it's super gritty, grainy, crunchy and catchy. Ugh.
No symptoms from clutch itself so I'm trying another kit in hopes it will fix it.
Professional
Joined: Aug 2004
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From: Laquey, MO
Don’t have much help for you - clutch problems drive me buggy. Because it’s getting worse as it gets warm, it sounds like something is going out of alignment as it heats up. I’d get under it and make sure the transmission and associated parts are where they need to be and torqued down properly.
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Do you mean the trans to engine bolts? Haha, yeah, they're tight. Everything is kosher down there. There's too much holding it all together to be that.
It's either a new bad Sachs hydraulic kit or a new bad Sachs clutch. Both are OEM and both could be the problem. I guess I'll just wait for the replacement kit and then if that doesn't fix it, drive it until it breaks cause I'm sick of tearing into this thing to fix something perfectly only to have it go bad anyway.
It's either a new bad Sachs hydraulic kit or a new bad Sachs clutch. Both are OEM and both could be the problem. I guess I'll just wait for the replacement kit and then if that doesn't fix it, drive it until it breaks cause I'm sick of tearing into this thing to fix something perfectly only to have it go bad anyway.
