Help clutch got an oil bath

chris89 · Jun 19, 2013

So I had an oil leak in the valley and my clutch got a bath in all the oil. Well now the clutch won't hold if I get into the throttle really hard. I've tried spraying brake cleaner in through the hole on the bottem of the bellhousing and though the hole in the back of the valley with no luck. Any other suggestions? The clutch is a Kevlar/ceramic valair.

20007.3L · Jun 19, 2013

from the sounds of it, if you already sprayed cleaner in there and still does it! May need to pull the clutch and clean it up?

mandkole · Jun 19, 2013

I had a bad valley leak due to a fuel pump issue on an OBS and it never affected the clutch. did you add grease to the throwout bearing perhaps?

chris89 · Jun 19, 2013

Clutch has maybe 15k miles. I had a fuel leak and that made it slip but that problem soon went away after the fuel leak was fixed. But it doesn't not like the oil at all. If I was to pull the clutch I would rather just replace it with a dual disk.

mandkole · Jun 19, 2013

Ive not seen an actual throwout bearing on a PSD, but just using my experience of over greasing one in past and killing a clutch quickly due to slung grease.

littleredstroker · Jun 19, 2013

mandkole said:
I had a bad valley leak due to a fuel pump issue on an OBS and it never affected the clutch. did you add grease to the throwout bearing perhaps?

Hpo line leaked, soaking the clutch

sent while looking at a hole in my block

chris89 · Jun 25, 2013

Does anyone know if I can buy just a disk from valair?

ford_trck · Jun 25, 2013

My ferramic SB clutch took a very healthy bath in oil. I pulled the trans soaked it in the solvent tank and after installed within 500 miles it stopped slipping after driving the crap out of it.

chris89 · Jun 25, 2013

Just got off the phone with them and they didnt really want to sell me a disk.

Did you do anything else beside just soaking it?

ford_trck · Jun 25, 2013

I soaked it and then used a brush in the tank to clean off as much of the film as possible. When I drove it I would lug the truck and let the clutch slip maybe 2 seconds before letting off. After driving around for the weekend it had stopped slipping.
The clutch had an oil bath for 3 month, the rear main starting leaking and was loosing 1 gallon of oil every 100 miles.