I purchased a 99 Subaru Legacy Outback as a winter project to fix up and use as my commuter vehicle.
It needed a new clutch, I pulled the motor and installed a new Exedy OEM clutch kit as well as a new flywheel and transmission snout repair kit (I did all new bearings that came with the kits too). Subaru's are notorious for eating the transmission snout causing rough clutch engagement. Mine wasn't worn bad but did it because I was in there.silky smooth clutch movement.
Anyways, does a clutch need to break in for a while? I've never had a brand new clutch before. I've driven it about 100 miles in the city and am getting some clutch chatter when starting off about 50% of the time. Shakes the car pretty bad.
Maybe i'm not giving it enough gas, too much gas, letting the clutch out too fast? I'm letting the clutch out while revving it to 1200-1500 RPM's. This is my first manual Subaru but I've owned 3 other manual cars over the past 16 years.
Maybe someone else with a manual Subaru can give some insight on how they drive their's smoothly.
It needed a new clutch, I pulled the motor and installed a new Exedy OEM clutch kit as well as a new flywheel and transmission snout repair kit (I did all new bearings that came with the kits too). Subaru's are notorious for eating the transmission snout causing rough clutch engagement. Mine wasn't worn bad but did it because I was in there.silky smooth clutch movement.
Anyways, does a clutch need to break in for a while? I've never had a brand new clutch before. I've driven it about 100 miles in the city and am getting some clutch chatter when starting off about 50% of the time. Shakes the car pretty bad.
Maybe i'm not giving it enough gas, too much gas, letting the clutch out too fast? I'm letting the clutch out while revving it to 1200-1500 RPM's. This is my first manual Subaru but I've owned 3 other manual cars over the past 16 years.
Maybe someone else with a manual Subaru can give some insight on how they drive their's smoothly.
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