K so comin home it was rainy and i was on my fav backroad thats open and no cars come down. So i did a peel out in first for like 5 seconds, cause its easy in the rain and you dont have to rev as high, therefor straining the clutch as much to break the tires lose, i know i know, peel outs arent cool i dont wanna hear it. I then tried peeling out in second, to see if these cars can break loose, i rev a lil and drop the clutch and then rev high and it jumps to about 6000 and i keep it there as it "SOUNDS" like its peeling out, although this didnt sound exactlly right this time.. so i let off the everything and put it into nuetral for a sec. and jeezus christ, this horrible smell comes into the car as a sour burning, i went home slowly which was only about 1/2 a mile and pulled into the garage, and smoke is whisping out around the hood, so i opened it and didnt see anything, figured it was coming from the trany. i decided to go to the bottum of my hill to test for "slippage" by putting it into third and accelerating cause I heard that the clutch will slip if under strain like that and this would be a good test, and sure enough the rpm instantly drop to like 600 and starts bogging even if i push the pedal. I figure ****, i just destroyed my clutch. The question is now, where to get a pad, why wouldnt second have engaged normally instead of burning the clutch like that, (i guess the "weird" peel out noise was the clutch spinning and slipping the whole time)

 

If your clutch is slipping, when you floor it, the rpms would go up, and you wouldnt gain speed quickly

If your rpms drop, the clutch is not slipping.

 

this is true, my bad... then maybe its just bogging cause its in third and it would anyways
so what happened then..

 

i'm not being sarcastic, you might have gone through a puddle or something in the driveway and that can make the brakes steam if they are hot when they get wet

 

yeh, if it grabbed in third and you were at 600 rpm theres no problem, at least not a serious one. try going in you driveway, put it in 5th, pull the ebrake and try to give it gas and let the clutch out. if you can do this without stalling or moving then ur clutch is going bad. if its stall youre doin ok.

 

so what was the smell and everything, what happened

 

from my guess, the smell was hot MTF and steam was water splashed on your tranny... jus puttin 2 and 2 together tho, dont quote me. :guess:

 

you probably burned your clutch a little bit, i dont think that would kill it, unless it wasnt that good to begin with.

 

im almost positive this was a burned clutch smell, it was SOO strong, filled up my garage for like 3 hours tonight, but it was only in the "rubbing" state for about 5 seconds until i threw it into nuetral when i realized something had gone wrong. Do you think 5 seconds of clutch pad rubbing at 6-7k rpm would destroy it?

 

Relax, you didn't kill your clutch, unless it was almost completely dead anyway. I had the same experience on my old '92 SE once. The car was going through it's stalling out faze, and once in heavy traffic it died. Once I got it restarted I revved it to around 5k rpm's and dropped the clutch. There was no smoke but plenty of smell! BTW, the clutch had 135k miles on it then (original) and after that it still worked fine.

 

k thanks for the reasurance (sp) guys ill drive it in the AM to check it, its still smelling though now and its been outside for about 5 hours ha

 

it is now the next day, and my car DROVE fine i guess, there is nothing noticable at this point. But it still smells under the hood, is it normal for a burned pad to smell even a full day later?