- Location
- Westminster, SoCal
well in november my stock clutch gave the ghost at 132K so I had a local shop do the replacement. All was good till recently when I started doing the leap frog move on the road every so often when starting from full stop in 1st gear. It seems to be more likely to happen when I'm carrying passengers (as in extra weight) and on steep onramps on the freeway that crawl (traffic control light and many cars).... in any case I still have abotu 2K miles on the warranty (I drive a lot... I'm at 140K now) so I took the day off yesterday and stopped by the shop that did it. The mechanic took it for a test drive and well... it didn't happen. So I got in the jeep, he sat in the passenger seat and off we went. I had it happen once, although it wasn't as bad as it gets sometimes (it's not only intermittent but it's intensity varies). He claimed that I let go of the clutch to early (rapidly?). This is kind of an odd explanation, as I have not changed my drivng style and I have always been driving stick shifts. Also I haven't had it happen before swapping out the clutch..... now since the owner of the shop wasn't in that day I will be coming back either Fri eve or Monday eve to take him for a test drive, but if I can't reproduce the symptoms he won't do any work on it ....
Anyways, I guess my question is if the rapid letting go of the clutch (I really don't think I'm doing it faster then I used to, but now that I"m second guessing myself I really don't know anymore) could cause the leap frog effect? Now for kicks I let go of the clutch in what I'd consider rapid manner and I effectively stalled, but had one big jerk/jump instead of 5 or 6 leaps (without stall). Also the incline/onramp on the freeway, I don't really let go the clutch all the way as I'm moving only about 5 feet and I don't get to complete teh transfer from released clutch to depressed gas pedal only so the letting of the clutch too early doesn't make sense there either.
Does anyone have any suggestions? comments? thoughts on this matter?? Cause to me it feels like the clutch is kind of slipping: it grabs then lets go... and grabs again and lets go and results in a violent leap/jerk motion.
Anyways, I guess my question is if the rapid letting go of the clutch (I really don't think I'm doing it faster then I used to, but now that I"m second guessing myself I really don't know anymore) could cause the leap frog effect? Now for kicks I let go of the clutch in what I'd consider rapid manner and I effectively stalled, but had one big jerk/jump instead of 5 or 6 leaps (without stall). Also the incline/onramp on the freeway, I don't really let go the clutch all the way as I'm moving only about 5 feet and I don't get to complete teh transfer from released clutch to depressed gas pedal only so the letting of the clutch too early doesn't make sense there either.
Does anyone have any suggestions? comments? thoughts on this matter?? Cause to me it feels like the clutch is kind of slipping: it grabs then lets go... and grabs again and lets go and results in a violent leap/jerk motion.