2019 Manual Tranny Slipping?!

The friction material is carbon fiber. Really good for wear, but lacks bite and feel.

 

Oh Interesting. Carbon fiber, fancy.

Do most modern MT have CF clutches or is it just a yota thing?

 

100% serious. I had a FB account for a while, but deleted that crap about 5yrs ago. Forums are about as far as I go.

The girls, we did (do) the best that we could. Never much social drama compared to what we hear about. They have all the accounts and my wife doesn't stalk them.



On your clutch, is it still slipping? Like I said, I've seen this before on other cars and my dry clutch bike. The cars got smoked backing up a trailer. I freaked me out but worked itself out once the surfaces got happy again.



You have a good one also.

 

Yep. It is very common.

A couple years ago, there was a pic around here of a failed one. Material failure in about 600mi, not the driver.

 

Oh yeah, i think i seen that one. It was missing pieces.

Wonder if my 07 ranger's clutch was carbon fiber. I sold it with 142k miles and the original clutch was still good. I was quite impressed, as i was pretty hard on it at times.

 

They don't have an to be anything special to last forever. It just depends on all the factors. Everything from manufacturing down to the driver, with a ton of things in between.

There's about 50,000 3rd Gen MTs. Around here, we see very few friction material posts. About as many as the odd Cylinder 1 valve issue.

 

Sounds exactly like a bad clutch. Higher gears put more load on the clutch.

 

I had to like just for the CNN shade.

 

I would say a lot depends on the driver. Some people need to rev up to 2k just to get moving. This girl in the parking lot punches the throttle like 10 just to reverse into her spot, i cringe when i hear that. All you gotta do is, release the clutch slowly without any gas, haha.

In the taco , i never go above 1k rpm to get moving. 1st is nice and low, so most of the time i just release the clutch and press the throttle at the same time.

 

Yep. I used to know folks who needed frequent clutch replacements. It was obvious why. By and large, that isn't the typical case but most likely the reason that wear is favored over feel and bite.

In the end, I would say that any clutch issue inside the bell housing at less than 150k is an early failure of some sort. Not always the driver.

 

Many years ago at my Aunt's funeral they made you valet your car, the dude was bouncing my car off the rev limiter while trying to put it in line.

 

The rear traction lock diff on your Ranger most likely had Carbon Fiber Friction Clutches too, I recall the 8.8 making the switch somewhere along the way

 

in case it's a real question, yes absolutely.

75mph in 5th gear in heavy rain rolling and off throttle in thick highway traffic right after the rain started. didn't punch, but gave it solid throttle to move into the fast lane and the truck snapped sideways so fast i was merely a passenger. someone above helped me get control back before the barricade and didn't even touch anyone.
aside from that i can spin tires in first and second easy and all the other gears when wet, no problem. but my truck is really tweaked for all that.

 

I was running an 8.8 on my old YJ.... the LSD wouldn’t cause this issue tho.... dang... kinda miss that YJ LOL

 

Right I was off the original topic, have the 8.8 in my car too.

 

Yep it dont get more obvious than that! Always been 3rd gear and up for me when its time to change.

 

Man, not gonna lie, but that little guy got me everywhere. The LSD worked amazing. With good tires it was as capable as the my taco. What it was lacking was, the advanced traction control the 3rd gen has. It has its place, but sometimes it needs to be turned off for good.