proper stopping with a 6mt

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Jun 12, 2012 | 02:36 AM

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I'm alittle surprised at how many put the car in neutral. I only do that if there's a pretty great distance till I have to stop.

Jun 12, 2012 | 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by partyman66

If you trash your throwout bearing, you've essentially trashed your whole clutch because of the fact that it's a pretty labor intensive job to change out a clutch, and you almost always change out all the parts of the clutch at the same time whenever you have it off of the car to avoid replacing just individual clutch components and having to go back in and replace another clutch component at a later time.

It is a good amount of work dropping the tranny to get to the clutch, so it is pretty common to want to replace everything as the labor averages about $750 regardless, and the parts are only about $300. But it is not that hard to change out just the bearing. The hardest part is to get the clutch components to line back up since you can't just slap the parts together, and I'd expect most shops to be too lazy to deal with the little bit of extra work to re-use an old clutch.