Posted by BushogPapa on December 22, 2016 at 17:44:36 from (107.10.186.248):
In Reply to: Exploding Clutch posted by JimS on December 22, 2016 at 17:01:19:
MANY things can happen and none of them are good..!!
Much depends on just what the engine was doing and just WHAT came apart..
A Clutch-Plate can loose chunks of friction materiel at about any RPM and make a real Racket and cause much vibration ( unless the clutch is disengaged to stop the clutch-plate from rotating.. There IS the possibility the friction materiel folds and jams..causing the Clutch to be unable to disengage and that is dangerous also..
Then, there is the type of "Explosion" we would all not care to have experience with.. The Presure Plate letting go ( comes apart) at high RPM, breaking the flywheel along with it and the pieces Exploding OUT of the Clutch compartment..
I have a friend who is about the luckiest one I know... back in the early 1960's, he believed A Small Block Chevy was not ready to "Run" until it carried 5 lbs of oil pressure at 6,000 RPM...
He regularly shifted that '58 Chevy/ 327 at 8,000 RPM..( Back when that was un-heard of)..
Now, when the Clutches would explode (Lucky every time), they went DOWN out of the bell-housing...
He carried a large Mallet all the time, to knock the flywheel/Pressure Plate Pieces out of the Asphalt after they blew... a TRUE Motor-Head..!!
Yep, he is very much alive and has Both feet to this day...!!
In today's world, most Sane competitors have Forged Scatter-Shields in place to keep the shrapnel to a minimum.. !!
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