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04-08-2003, 03:30 PM | #1 |
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Location: Duluth, GA
Vehicle:2002 Impreza WRX Silver |
Clutch replacement issue OR picking a fight!
So the dealer is claiming ignorance and the fact that they can change the clutch on the WRX without taking the front wheels off?
Anybody agree? I sure don't. Reason I ask is its very strange that I can take off my Kyokugen locking lug nuts on the back with a simple socket set, yet the fronts would not budge with a 3 foot breaker bar or even with an Impact Wrench? Dealer claims they must have just gotten hot and seized... um no. So now, the fronts are slipping, stripping and I am running out of options. Thanks, Jay
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04-08-2003, 10:36 PM | #2 |
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Change the clutch WITHOUT taking the front wheels off? that's how my dealer did it....they put the car on a hoist & did it from there....
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04-10-2003, 01:18 AM | #3 |
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Vehicle:2004 sti 07 Lexus Breakwater Blue |
fronts
i have replaced too many clutches to count on subaru's i never-never take the front wheels off. there is absolutely no reason too once the trans is unbolted from engine u slide it back 4-5 inch and the inner joints slide off trans stub shafts. thats it and it goes back in the same way. this includes many - many wrx's
this is the every sub tech that is train does it |
04-10-2003, 04:10 AM | #4 |
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My local dealership changed my clutch without taking off my front wheels...
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04-10-2003, 10:22 AM | #5 |
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Thanks
Thanks for all the responses.
While I do want to believe them since it is my fav mod friendly dealership and I talked directly to the tech that did my clutch change. It is very strange that I was the last one with the wheels off, I put them all back on by hand with a torque wrench to 65lbs. The backs spun off so easily, but the Fronts as I said will NOT move. Been to two tire places and now we are talking about cutting them off! I have orded two new keys and hopefully with electrical tape to make things tighter on the nuts, I can get the fronts off. Just all seems very suspicious. Thanks, Jay |
04-10-2003, 08:04 PM | #6 |
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Same thing with the wheels happened to me. I'm 100% sure the dealer overtorqued the nuts. I split a Craftsman socket trying to get the damn thing off. We used my friend's impact wrench to finally get the nuts off. Talk to your dealer or find a buddy with an impact wrench.
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04-10-2003, 09:34 PM | #7 |
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Duluth, GA
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Well, I am hoping 2 new keys with electrical tape to tighten things up in the socket might do the trick. I have tried my impact wrench with no luck and that started my slipping issue.
Thanks. |
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