CAP clutches
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gorganl2000
Lifer
well those are very strong statements to make-----becareful
to be honest...its hard to say the clutches dont work....when it seems like the others in this said post who use this same clutch have had no problems---several of them using them for a while ---gt dan, jezza, sheldon, glanza dan, knightsy-ep91, danturbo4311, montanajr, gt-td04.....some say a little judder and then the cltuch settled....and they seem happy ever since
your client being the only person in this tread who had issues with the 2 clutches provided......and this is in perspective of this tread
well...i honestly hope u get it sorted out from the client's sake--- who seems to have been without a car for a while
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Ted
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i had a cap clutch a while back, fitted correctly and couldnt get gears easily, reverse was a no no. suspected it was the cover so ordered an uprated exedy one off dave and put it in the car with the cap paddle disc. bit juddery but worked fine. so i left the cap cover in a corner and left it.
then this year we were building the corolla track car to turbo spec and needed a clutch. money was tight so just to see what happened we put the old cap cover in with a std turbo disc. and it fucking worked!
so ive found that yes cap clutches can be troublesome but havent a clue why.
then this year we were building the corolla track car to turbo spec and needed a clutch. money was tight so just to see what happened we put the old cap cover in with a std turbo disc. and it fucking worked!
so ive found that yes cap clutches can be troublesome but havent a clue why.
Sheldon
Malta Area Rep.
Ted
Member +
not hard to bleed a clutch mate, and myself and trevor fitted it twice, still hard to get in gear, once with cap release bearing, once with std toyota one. i adjusted the cable too.
Ted
Member +
i kno mate it was just a maybe?
well so you have to be lucky to get a good cap clutch i guess :S
no its not like that. my cover worked with a standard disc and the disc worked with an exedy cover so the problem must be a quirk of fitting. maybe some part isnt made exactly correctly and it causes an issue just the odd time.
well those are very strong statements to make-----becareful
to be honest...its hard to say the clutches dont work....when it seems like the others in this said post who use this same clutch have had no problems---several of them using them for a while ---gt dan, jezza, sheldon, glanza dan, knightsy-ep91, danturbo4311, montanajr, gt-td04.....some say a little judder and then the cltuch settled....and they seem happy ever since
your client being the only person in this tread who had issues with the 2 clutches provided......and this is in perspective of this tread
well...i honestly hope u get it sorted out from the client's sake--- who seems to have been without a car for a while
Be careful of what, accurately describing what is a crap clutch much like other exedy's. Strong statements are only made on experience of this
Update.........Helix paddle clutch fitted this evening as guess what, it works:rockon:
The quality of the Helix clutch makes the Cap clutch look pathetic in all honesty
To be honest i expected a typical 'forum' response of 'well mine is ok' and an objection to technical knowledge stating the faults with these clutches. Respect is due to the last few people who have stood up and admitted problems with the clutches. I hope this proves something to the non believers.......
So now after pretty conclusive evidence all thats left is for Speedvision to arrange what happens now
Sheldon
Malta Area Rep.
well different experience from different users... i had a helix clutch with a daiken pressure plate before the cap.. was fine until it started slipping. then changed to cap and feel was exact like the setup i had before still with no problems till this day (hope nothing goes wrong now lol) but most of the users running cap had no problems including me... so what did you expect that we say cap are crap imidiatly once you posted here?? tbh never heard anything bad about them until this thread poped up! not even from ted.. anyway glad your problem is sorted.
just a little update, having changed absolutely nothing on the car since the second cap clutch was removed again, today a brand new helix paddle clutch went in.
I went for the helix because a few people i know run them and have never had any troubles, they were also very helpfull when i spoke to them.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, the helix went in this evening, fired her up not too long ago and the helix clutch works fine? slips into all gears fine without any of the horrid crunching i was getting from the cap clutches.
Now someone please correct me if i'm worng but surely this means that both the cap clutches i received were faulty, what more evidence do you need?!?
My friends got a load of pictures of the new helix going in and some comparisons, they'll probably be up tomorrow now as it's getting on, but even for a layman like myself, i'm sorry to say comparing the two makes of clutches they seem a world apart in build qualilty.
I'm ecstatic I now have a car i can go about getting taxed, mot'd and back on the road again, it's only been the best part of five months now? and hopefully speedvision will be somewhat more forethcoming in offering me atleast a refund for the bad cap clutch.
I went for the helix because a few people i know run them and have never had any troubles, they were also very helpfull when i spoke to them.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, the helix went in this evening, fired her up not too long ago and the helix clutch works fine? slips into all gears fine without any of the horrid crunching i was getting from the cap clutches.
Now someone please correct me if i'm worng but surely this means that both the cap clutches i received were faulty, what more evidence do you need?!?
My friends got a load of pictures of the new helix going in and some comparisons, they'll probably be up tomorrow now as it's getting on, but even for a layman like myself, i'm sorry to say comparing the two makes of clutches they seem a world apart in build qualilty.
I'm ecstatic I now have a car i can go about getting taxed, mot'd and back on the road again, it's only been the best part of five months now? and hopefully speedvision will be somewhat more forethcoming in offering me atleast a refund for the bad cap clutch.
GT-TD04
Supermoderator
Well it is,what else could i say?
I honestly had no problems with mine and ive had to rake it off 3 times now and re-fit it with no problems.
A mate of mine said he got one of the first batch and something about the rivet was sticking up too far? maybe thats it?
Glad to hear you sorted it out mate. Maybe you got 2 bad clutches or maybe it was another thing, because dan4 said you replaced the flywheel on the 2nd cap clutch, then again just a suggestion. Every user has a different experience on things and almost all the people that have used cap clutches haven´t had any problems with it.
Sheldon
Malta Area Rep.
one thing i can see different from most of the users over here is that we got the clutch directly from CAP and you got it from speedvision.
once there was a guy who got a CAP clutch from sam and then he wanted a refund cos he found it was cheaper from CAP but sam told him that the ones sam sells are made specificly for him! and as we all know the clutches from CAP are for the MR2...
thats the only difference i can see...
ted.. where you got yours from?
sheldon
once there was a guy who got a CAP clutch from sam and then he wanted a refund cos he found it was cheaper from CAP but sam told him that the ones sam sells are made specificly for him! and as we all know the clutches from CAP are for the MR2...
thats the only difference i can see...
ted.. where you got yours from?
sheldon
just to clarify, the flywheel was sorted for the second cap clutch but it still didn't work, just glad the new helix one does
quick question to help other user on that, did you sorted the flywheel before installing the 2nd clutch or after?
speedvision
Member +
clutches ordered thru me are shipped directly from cap to the customer..
yes my price is higher if you go thru me rather than cap.
sam
Sheldon
Malta Area Rep.
they are they the same but?? as this guy i know you told him its not the same as you get from caps site