The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk beware of them flywheel covers! shooting myself in the foot

so heres an interesting discovery

a while back i fitted one of those aftermarket grp flywheel covers

been fine

then this weekend i tried to use my truck and noticed straight away two things

1) my clutch had suddenly and without warning at all failed. impossible to get it to disengage and ground every gear

2) my engine had sprung a fairly large water leak..from where i couldnt tell


i had water dripping off the engine rear and a faily large puddle of clear cold water on the driveway. this really got my head scratching as is wasnt coolant....

clutches dont usually just suddenly fail like that so i dug deaper...


turns out that some how, maybe from heavier than normal rainfall the flywheel cover had filled with rain water, the clutch must have become wet and stuck engaged.


i removed the cover, loosened the clutch plate bolts used a screwdriver to gently pry the clutch free.

and clutch is running fine again.


I have now fitted a small drain hole in the flywheel cover....