01 c5z on the flat bed again
so i had my tranny rebuilt at the begining of the summer, had new mcleod rxt clutch/flywheel installed with tick performance master and new gm slave.
went down at the track saturday with the van and the vette i was gonna store my van for the winter and the storage is down the road from the track.
so i go for a pass w/o n2o , bad start i didnt lunch it hard enough ( bog of the line) the track was pretty sticky for cold condition.
try a second pass, get it down faster but still bad lunch
3rd pass i go for nitrous i lunch it hard enought and manage 11.7@123mph with a 1.8 60ft. im all happy thinking of geting that 60ft down and maybe getting closer to 11.5
so i go for a 4th pass...
so i start to burn on the pad but the car goes forward, so i stop and back up to do a proper burnout.
nothing happens.
i make sure i properlly engaged my gear slowly engage the clutch .... nothing, try reverse, nothing
no noise wat so ever, look under the car, nothing has exploded or is leaking.
so i push the car out of the pad with a budy we start the engine and listen closelly for any noise whyle trying to engage first or reverse.
no grinding and no moving. so yea im kinda bumed thinking of pulling the fucking drivetrain again.
ive been told that most likely my clutch hub has snapped its rivets.....i would of tough that some sort of noise would come from that
evertyhing from clutch pedal feel to my shifter feels normal
wat do you think my issue is? looks like w/e it is i still have to pull the whole fucking thing out, fucking sucks.
the car is stored il have to drive back there with some tools to start checking it out, might just change out the diff while everything is pulled even if thats not the issu



This post was edited by BlueAndWhite on Nov 9 2015 12:23pm

Clutch (told you i hate McLeod right?), or trans input shaft imo if nothing is spinning.

r.i.p. c5

This all sounds extremely familiar.


When it happened to me it was my differential's output shaft that snapped.

Can you actually find a hear it is it just slop where you can't feel anything

yup, this is the '' i hate to say i told you so but i told you so'' situation, never tough i would be breaking the clutch this quick.


wat ever thsi means, i cant hear any sound that arent normal


i tryed to look under the car but the damn thing is so low i couldn't see much but then again i would of heard the shaft dangling around


this for winter atleast

This post was edited by BlueAndWhite on Nov 9 2015 02:22pm

no gears? did you try 2nd-5th? or 6th?

idk if its a 5 speed or 6

You couldn't hear anything dangling around on mine. The shaft broke clean in the differential, after the initial snap it was silent.

I ment gear

yea i tried em all nothing moves or grinds and the engine just idles smoothly


yea the gears feel normal, the shifter is working


oh then maybe this could also be the issue.

i kinda left out an important peice of info, the speedo was reading speed once put in gear so i guess where ever the sensor is is still turning