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Originally Posted by Oscarnogue
I wanted to ask. A few days ago, I drove aggressively when leaving my house; it was like a quick acceleration that lasted a couple of seconds, with my SS, and a lot of smoke came out, and the smell of burnt clutch was strong. The gears became difficult to shift, so I parked it again. It only has 34,500 miles. Has this happened to anyone before, and was it just the smell and the smoke? Maybe the disc is burned or crystallized? Will I need a new replacement kit? Thank you!
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Definitely going to need to pull the transmission and replace some things.
Ive got 107k on my stock parts but I'm a very seasoned manual driver.
If your disc is having trouble holding then the slip will cause a lot of heat that will get transferred other parts. Like your throw out bearing. If that melts then it starts to bind which makes the situation even worse because now it's slightly holding the pressure plate even tho your pedal is released.
That situation can also come from slightly holding the clutch pedal in while doing a burnout or any other aggressive launching.
You can USUALLY feel the loss of throw out bearing functionality in the pedal. It wont come back up or it will come back up really slowly.
Pull the trans with the intention of replacing all of the clutch components and the rear main seal. If the throwout bearing got hot enough to melt then the rear main seal probably got pretty hot as well.